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    <title>Dollars and Sex | Big Think</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Dollars and Sex&lt;/em&gt;, economist&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Marina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Adshade converts economic theory into a sexy science by applying the principles of supply and demand and other market forces to matters of love, courtship, sex, intimacy, and marriage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>A New Home For Dollars and Sex!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:00:18 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ After two wonderful years at Big Think, Dollars and Sex has found a new home at <a href="http://www.MarinaAdshade.com">MarinaAdshade.com</a>. Please visit me there to keep up with my blog and to get information on my new book, <em>Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love, </em>which will be released in the spring of 2012.   A very big ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/a-new-home-for-dollars-and-sex'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Republicans are Watching the Poles</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ It appears that workers in at least one industry will be benefiting from an income redistribution from the wealthy next month – strippers in Tampa Bay. According to <em>
  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/us/strip-clubs-in-tampa-are-ready-to-cash-in-on-gop-convention.html?_r=1">The New York Times</a>
</em>, club owners in that region are ramping up hiring in anticipation of a massive increase in demand for adult ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/republicans-go-to-the-polls'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Abstinence Spending Deserves a Little Credit for the Decline in Teen Pregnancies</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:49:25 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ The one thing you can count on in social science research is this: Inquiry will continue until the preferred hypothesis has proven to be true. Proponents for abstinence only sex education are no doubt celebrating new evidence that, on the surface at least, supports their belief. Before funders put ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/abstinence-spending-deserves-a-little-credit-for-the-decline-in-teen-pregnancies'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Would you like a side of Christianity with that, Sir?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Don’t you just hate it when people that you fundamentally disagree with say something that you know to be true? Back in March, Brian Brown, president of the National Organization For Marriage (NOM), said “Corporations should not take sides in a culture war that pits a company against the majority ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/would-you-like-a-side-of-christianity-with-that-sir'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why We Marry</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:48:23 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Here’s a question I have been struggling for years: Why do we marry? I am not confused about the desire to have a wedding – the pretty dress, standing before family and friends, the party – that part I get.  It’s the need to seek the government seal of approval of the marriage that challenges me ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/why-we-marry'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Having Access to the Internet is Good for Your Love Life (But Only if you are Under 30)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:14:54 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Over the past few posts here at Dollars and Sex, we have been talking about two behaviors that online dating sites encourage that make finding a mate more difficult – <a href="http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/why-were-still-single-part-i">excessive filtering</a> and <a href="http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/why-were-still-single-part-ii">pursuit of the “perfect” mate</a>. &#13;
 New, yet unpublished, research finds some evidence that US states in which ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/having-access-to-the-internet-is-good-for-your-love-life-but-only-if-you-are-under-30'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why We’re Still Single, Part II</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Have you ever come across a dating profile that includes the phrase, “I won’t settle for less than perfect, and neither should you”? It seems that the vastness of the online dating market has encouraged a change in attitude among singles away from “I could do worse” towards “I could do better ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/why-were-still-single-part-ii'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why We’re Still Single, Part I</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ I can’t shake this feeling that access to online dating is actually making it more difficult for men and women to find love. I know that sounds counterintuitive, especially from a market perspective, but what should have been a useful tool to encourage matching has encouraged a response that is ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/why-were-still-single-part-i'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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      <title>Is having a lesbian mother bad for children?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:43:02 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ To lesbian mothers everywhere I have this to say – welcome to the community of second-rate parents. Don’t worry, you won’t be lonely here. You will have lots of company among us single and divorced mothers who have doomed their children to miserable lives. You thought you were doing a good job, I ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/is-having-a-lesbian-mother-bad-for-children'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <title>Dating in a Land Where Jante is the Law</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ If you want to know why you are still single you might try posting a dating profile on a Scandinavian website. According to a friend of mine, online searchers there are brutally honest about why they aren’t interested. This is painful for her, undoubtedly, but very informative for us because it ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/dating-in-a-land-where-jante-is-the-law'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Marina Adshade</dc:creator>
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