The Carousel, Sex Partners, Gender Norms
Upcoming book events + links and recommendations
You can now listen to my recent conversation with Isaac Simpson on The Carousel Podcast.
Links for Spotify and Apple Podcast.
Book Event in Fulton, Missouri:
Today (April 15) at 4pm at America’s National Churchill Museum.
Free and open to the public. Details here.
Book Event at Washington University in St. Louis:
April 16 (tomorrow) at 6pm. Details and registration here.
From the archives:
The Psychology of Social Status and Class. My conversation with Jordan B. Peterson:
Links and recommendations:
Applications are now open for the University of Austin. Apply here
Why we so often fail to work together by Lionel Page
The Risks of Avoiding Risk by Josh Zlatkus
Will Universities Embrace Class-Based Preferences? by Robert VerBruggen
Gender Norms are Complex, Opaque by Robin Hanson
The Psychology of Political Extremism by Steve Stewart-Williams
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Three interesting findings:
1. Depression is significantly more contagious than happiness or good mental health. Interestingly, depression spreads from women more so than from men. When a woman became depressed, it increased the odds of depression in her close friends (male and female) by 142%. (source: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt).
2. For young adults, by far the most common number of sex partners in the past year is zero or one. About 10-20% of the young adult population has lots of sex with each other, while the rest are either sexless or in committed relationships. (source).
3. Babies often struggle to sleep unless they’re being held or cuddled because they’ve been shaped by millions of years of evolution to feel uneasy when they’re not close to a caregiver. Until very recently in human history, there was no truly safe place to leave a baby—or even a toddler—out of arm’s reach. (source: Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke).
Committed relationship = lots of opportunity for sex. So if you are someone that values sex, def find your mate and marry up. Hurry up, what are you waiting for? Just ask her already 😏
About #3 babies…My wife and I co-slept near our children as babies/toddlers too — in our bedroom. Great experience. Much easier on mother and better all around for father (IME)