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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is an old literature about this.  When there is a surplus of women, then hookup culture develops and women must share boyfriends.

The New Math on Campus
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222185246/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html?pagewanted=1&hpw

Sexual Economics, Culture, Men, and Modern Sexual Trends
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-012-9596-y

Student Bodies: Does the Sex Ratio Matter for Hooking Up and Having Sex at College?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2329496515579763
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Interesting.  Quotes:

[i]“Hooking up,” as students use the term, involves anything from “making out” to intercourse, with no necessary implication of an interest in a relationship.[/i]

[i]Consistent with the prediction, we find that where the ratio of women to men is higher, students of both sexes hook up more and accumulate more sexual partners, but inconsistent with it, students are no more likely to have intercourse in a given hookup where the ratio of women is higher.[/i]

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