Thursday 27 October 2011

More Sex is Safer Sex...

The article More Sex is Safer Sex by Steven Landsburg has a very interesting perspective on polygamy monogamy. The main point of the article as the title states is that more sex actually would be safer sex. This is represented by an interesting example, of going into a pub and meeting potential sexual partner. 50% of the potential sexual partners could be prostitutes or just more promiscuous partners who are more likely to be infected with an STI. Then the other 50% of "Once a year revelers" who are likely not to have an STI. This is a 50-50 chance of getting an STI, whereas if the once a year revelers would start to be twice a year revelers then on any given night there would be twice as many of them. This puts your chances of getting an std now from 50% to 2 out of 6. Another point mentioned in the article was subsidizing condoms or giving them out for free. It is said that this is positive and negative meaning that the positive side is that safe sex is promoted whereas the negative side is that sex is promoted, resulting in STIs. Although looking from the perspective of this article, there are two upsides to subsidizing condoms or giving them out for free.
In my opinion taken from a purely economic perspective this is quit reasonable, although looking at it from a non mathematical point of view, there probably would be a bigger possibility of the "twice a year revelers" to go out on a certain night making the chances of an STI very low although on other night putting the chances back to 50-50 or even more.

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