Continuing the theme of the economics of love and marriage and why sex is getting cheaper and harder to find a couple.
About bromans.
Bro - brother - brother and romance - romance. The term increasingly pops up here and there.
The bottom line is that men are moving closer to each other (I almost crossed out this seditious thought) According to a small study published in the journal Men and Masculinities, young people are getting more and more emotional satisfaction from the “bromances” - close, but extremely friendly relations with other men.
More emotional satisfaction than romantic relationships with women.
That is what it is about.
The magazine interviewed 30 heterosexual second-year male students who were in a relationship before or are currently in a relationship and it has been dreamed that each of them has at least one “bromant” friend with whom he shares everything and trusts completely. The men also said that it was easier for them to overcome conflicts and share their emotions with their friends and discuss sensitive health information with them.
In general, they argued that such relationships were more satisfactory in terms of emotional closeness compared to heterosexual novels.
The study may be small, but it reflects the general trend of new relationships between people of a new generation.
There is no motivation to fight for females. Sex in modern society is cheap. It is available as never before, in terms of time, effort and risk. Contraception, dating sites, porn, feminismThe commercialization of sex has created a massive slowdown in the development of relationships and a devaluation of the value of marriage. About it we have already said.
Men need less and less effort to find a partner.
All this happens against the backdrop of a thinning of social and psychological barriers to male close friendships.
Masculinity becomes only an external image (remember how many brutal gays),
On the one hand, there is no motivation for hunting a female, on the other, emotionally light bromances. These changing cultural norms already have significant results. For example, the tendency to share housing with a friend has become more protracted. In this way, you can delay the entry into relationships, which ultimately can lead to marriage and family. That is, simply, to live as an eternal student.
“Falling in love is a temporary feeling,” said one study participant. "Bromanism can last a lifetime."
P. S. Metro writes that:
"The world without a woman is approaching, as scientists first raised eggs in the laboratory."
It seems to me that we will continue the topic.
The Economics of Love and Marriage: Guttentag Secord Theory
