~ excerpt p 237-8 from Contemporary Social Problems Robert K Merton, Robert Nisbet, HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH INTERNATIONAL EDITION ©︎1961- 1976 Columbia University

The girl could thus use her relatively short period of maximum attractiveness to settle her future in the best way possible – by marriage.This is still the bargain that many girls in contemporary socity would like to make, and some of them do, but their bargaining position has ben undermined by [the growing loss of family and community controls]. [As a consequence, girls increasingly give their favours for nothing. This is described, ironically, as female ’emancipation.’ In some circles a girl now feels that she must be willing to indulge in intercourse to enjoy male company. As a student nurse put it,

[Whether you like it or not, you just have to go along with them, at least some of the time.

Otherwise, you get left out and sitting in the dorm all the time.

Given an absence of sanctions against males and the intense desire of most females to get married, girls are easily exploited²¹].

[That disorganization rather than simply a change of sexual standardsis suggested not only by the frequency of fraud but also by the rise of sexual crime and violence]. For instance, between 1960 and 1973 the rate for reported rapes in the United States ros 2 1/2 times According to the age-specific rates found in a 1965 national survey of crime victims, each thousand American women living from age 10 to age 50 would experience 48 rapes; this figure woould be approximately doubled in 1975²³. Many rapes and attempted rapes, however, are not reported to the police, still less other frorms of sexual coercion. In a study of 291 girls at Ohio State University, Kirkpatrick and Kanin found that 56 percent had experienced sexual aggression at least once during the preceding academic year.

[The girl of today must walk a slender tightrope. Expected to “comply,” she is in danger of a bad reputation if she does so frequently and with numerous partners. Males do not wish to marry the females they have “passed around²“].

~ See also apposite footnote¹ concerning highly socially-intelligent Peak-neoclassicism beat rhythm melody tone pitch timbre Julie Covington recording of “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” produced and recorded in 1976 for the Evita concept album. 

John, Saturday 7th February 2026

Australia

¹[[All you will see is a girl you once knew although she’s dressed up to the nines at sixes and sevens with you – I had to let it happen I had to change could’nt stay all my life down at heel looking out of the window staying out of the sun so i chose freedom running around trying everything new but nothing impressed me at all i never expected it too ..and as for fortune and as for fame i never invited them in though it seemed to the world they were all i desired they are illusions they’re not the solutions they promised to be the answer was here all the time [I LOVE YOU AND HOPE YOU LOVE ME]]

²¹ James K. Skipper, Jr. and Gilberet Nass, “Dating Behavior: A Framework for Analysis and an Illustration,” Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 28 ( November 1966 ), p. 417.

²³ Computed from U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1972 ( Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972 ), p. 145. [Even if reported a rapist’s chance of avoiding a penalty is excellent]. In American cities in 1972, only 49.4 percent of rapes reported resulted in an arrest, and only 8.9 percent were found guilty. Ibid., 1974, p. 153

² in a startling postmodern Make-shit-up ((George Orwell (EA Blair) Double-think primarily written 1948 and published in the year of this writer’s birth)) flurry an Australian state premier early in 2025 used the term Sloppy-seconds in a reference to a federal-state relations deal of some sort then in the terms of his or her, ahmm, their, public statement still under negotiation by parties and then subject to questioning by the noddys & tottys of the #auspol ngusmedia averred he/ they did not know what the term meant. Heavy-duty, young people.