When my man and I were young he wanted to become a tax attorney and then marry a good girl. As a good PickMe I convinced him that cool guys like him need to enjoy life and bang thots, not work at some law firm full of fat Beckies. I knew that he was going to get finessed by some woman looking for a meal ticket. He is now committed to a work free lifestyle and has enjoyed depraved sexual experiences with a variety of women.

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Back when I did this, men being work free and sexmaxxing was socially unacceptable. Men were expected to study and then have successful careers where they made a lot of money.

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Today we will look at evidence that the PickMe was right and was in fact only looking out for her man's best interest:

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As recently as October 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that over 11 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54—about seven million people—were neither employed nor seeking work. What are they doing, and why have they come to languish?

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I’m skeptical because men seem to be suffering little “penalty” in terms of sexual access

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The Irony of Men’s Higher Education: Less Sex but Greater Marriageability

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Ironically, what has emerged instead is that education and career—the twin achievements that make men marriageable—may exact their own penalties on sex for men. In the 2014 Relationships in America survey data—new analyses not reported in my book—23% of men ages 24-39 who have not completed high school report having had sex at least seven times in the past two weeks, well above the 5% of college-educated men and 4% of men with advanced degrees. What about high school graduates? Twenty-six percent of them report having had sex at least five times in the past two weeks, still above the 15% reported by college graduates. (More education is consistently inversely associated with recent sexual frequency among young men, even after obvious controls, including marital status.)

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On the other hand, only one-in-three high-school graduate men report pornography use in the past week, compared with 61% of college-educated men and 46% of those with graduate degrees. (This fits the “replacement” theory of sex and masturbation I’ve written about elsewhere.)

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Lest we presume these are uneducated braggarts overly subject to social desirability bias, they do not report far greater numbers of lifetime sex partners: only 11% of high-school graduate men report more than 15 partners.

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More education may eventually be necessary for men to marry, but it is not required for sustained sexual access. In fact, it may be penalizing men sexually, with long hours and busy lives prompting their greater reliance on virtual sex than on real sex.

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the price of becoming marriageable in a world of cheap sex means more studying, more work, less free time, and less sex, the actions of men—especially working-class men—may be more rational than economists thought.

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Key points:

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More educated men have less sex. 23% of high school dropouts had sex more than 7 times in 14 days. While only 5% of college educated men had that much sex.

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More educated men watch more porn. 30% of high school graduates vs 60% of college graduates reported watching porn in the past week. It's obvious that the high school graduates are having sex while the college graduates are masturbating to porn.

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Education makes men husband material but not sex material.

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Source: https://ifstudies.org/blog/cheap-sex-is-the-inconvenient-truth-in-the-retreat-from-marriage

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Thread theme: https://youtu.be/w_niLaDS6ec

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Discussion: Which lifestyle is the best for men: work free Playboy or educated wagie?

Edit: I'm adding partner counts:

On the contrary: in the Add Health study, 22-year-old adult men who never enrolled in college—or who have dropped out—and are not presently employed full-time report having had 7.4 lifetime sexual partners, on average. Among 22-year-old high-school dropouts that figure rises to 8.6 partners. When contrasted with male college graduates, it’s obvious that the economic resources or promise that men offer are of modest perceived value to potential sexual partners today. Such graduates report on average 4.9 lifetime partners, well below the numbers displayed by men who according to one indicator of resources—the standard of economic promise—have much less to offer a partner.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-012-9592-2

22 year old high school dropouts: 8.6

22 year old college grads: 4.9