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Toby Moreland, 29, is the pen name of a sales professional living in the southeastern United States.

By Toby Moreland — henrymakow.com March 21, 2014

I have been all over the place in my own life. I’ve gone through spurts of what I refer to as “hitting on everything that moves.”
I’ve lived with a woman in a committed relationship for several years. I’ve had long distance flames, and I’ve seen multiple women at the same time.
I’ve had periods of self-imposed abstinence. I’m not an expert, but I’m an observant person.
I can tell you that young women today (18-34) are a very different demographic than their Baby Boomer or Generation X mothers.
Most of these gals are not, in fact, feminists. They do, however, have feminist knee-jerk thoughts and reactions embedded into their minds.
I don’t think Dr. Makow’s assertion that “love for a woman is 90% trust” applies to this age group.
For these women, respect is the key ingredient. If they don’t fully respect the man they’re with, the relationship is doomed.
It’s actually more important that the woman can be trusted by the man, for (at least) the following reasons:
1) Men are not directly connected to reproduction. When a woman has a child, it’s clearly hers. When a man has a child – and is going to spend his life providing/caring for it – he needs to have faith that it’s his until/unless it’s obvious.
2) Most young women respect “players”. It’s a show of power and authority. It means that he takes what he wants and isn’t ashamed of it. All that alpha crap. This is obviously a generalization, but it’s more true than not. So if a young woman is settled in with a man who has stopped trying to attract other women (because he has the one he wants), other men who are still sexually aggressive are more appealing in this way.
However, this can be negated if the man is attacking his career goals or more important things with bravado. A shrinking economy makes this difficult for many.
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