To an economist, it’s crystal clear why people with limited sexual pasts choose to supply too little sex in the present: their services are underpriced. If sexual conservatives could effectively advertise their histories, HIV-conscious suitors would compete to lavish them with attention. But that doesn’t happen, because conservatives are hard to identify. Insufficiently rewarded for relaxing their standards, they relax their standards insufficiently.
This article makes the frustratingly-logical argument that society is better served if people with the most conservative sexual standards (those who choose the fewest partners) loosen up a little and take a few more partners—even if they contract HIV and die as a result—since this reduces the demand on the most promiscuous among us, who happen to be the most likely to be spread diseases like HIV. They backed up this conjecture with actual studies (??). How… interesting? Hmmmm.
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