::: Marriage Market Incentive Are Broken Part 1::: Historically men and...

::: Marriage Market Incentive Are Broken Part 1:::

Historically men and especially women were heavily incentivised by society to marry and stay married

Today, its basically the opposite

This is why marriage as an institution is on the decline

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Historical incentives for men to marry #1:

Historically men had little incentive to marry and most did not

The only reason that was universal was that it enabled them to have children

Children were both free labor and your retirement plan, essential if you lived that long

Historical incentives for men to marry #2:

Sex, but not what you think.

Every city had its prostitutes and buying sex has ALWAYS been cheaper than marriage

Plus men had other less talked about options

A wife however meant clean, safe, socially acceptable sex

Historical incentives for men to marry #3:

A domestic partner (mostly applies to land owners)

This doesn’t mean just someone to cook and clean, its a partner in managing your holdings

This applies extra to the Aristocracy who valued skilled often disagreeable women as partners

But what about

Companionship? Most men prefer the company of other men

Social pressure? Men could always join the Church, military, go on raids, etc. Lots of ways to be an honourable man

Custom? Occasionally. Spartans preferred fighting to women, so they were required to marry

Historical incentives for women to marry #1:

Freedom

Single women were property of their fathers

They were expected to work, building his wealth to be inherited by their brothers

When they married they got their own domain, property, a husband & children to care for her

Historical incentives for women to marry #2:

Security

Women can not survive on their own without men

Modern women and a rare few historical women could afford to buy male protection

For most women marriage to a man of standing was their primary security, sons as secondary

But what about

Sex? Women have never needed to marry to get sex

They just had to exist

Money? Thats another word for Security

Social obligation? Thats just society wanting a specific man to provide Security and Freedom to a woman so she is not a community or parental burden

What about today?

What incentives have been broken or distorted in the modern marriage market?

That is for Part 2, coming later this week

What about warrior women???

No such thing

You are mistaking historical fiction for reality

Just like someone Watching Wonder Woman in 2000 years and thinking it was a historical documentary

If the women were fighting it was your last stand and you were about to all perish