[ronnier]

You are competition to other men. Why would they invite you into their social group and then have to compete with you for relationships with women (which are increasingly hard and harder for men to secure). That's my crazy theory anyways. Before we had hard social and religious contracts to pair one man with one woman... so the threat was low. That's all thrown out the window now, so there's a real threat that the man you make friends with might actually be the person who ruins your chance at a relationship -- I think that's in peoples mind. Anyways, just a crazy theory.

[pc86]

What evidence is there that finding a relationship is "increasingly hard[er] and harder for men to secure" compared to any other time in history? And what evidence is there that monogomy is "thrown out the window now?"

[micromacrofoot]

it probably is harder… but that’s because families can’t intimidate 15 year old girls into marrying grown men anymore