Fuckonomics: Part of a series exploring details of the Sexual Marketplace, using Economic Marketplace concepts and metaphors.
We're all familiar with simple two-way trades: I give you something, you give me something; value for value. Sometimes the deal is a win-win, sometimes it's a zero sum or win-lose, some deals are lose-lose. Most simple markets are saturated with competent players, causing values to stabilize and good margins or value-trades reduced or eliminated. In the sexual marketplace, this means colleges, dating sites, pickup bars and other such open, direct markets overinflate the value of lower-SMV women and can place a difficult ceiling on how high an SMV you're able to pull from them.
In economics, Arbitrage refers to types of trading that take place across different markets or trading platforms, for example international stock, currency, commodity exchanges in trading and different bookmakers in gambling, in order to maximize profit and minimize or eliminate risk or loss.
SMV Arbitrage means to exploit value differences across different sexual marketplaces.
You've maximized your physique and polished your game, and have spent enough time in the local face to face sexual marketplace to find a personal "ceiling" there. Where can a man go from here? Arbitrage! Here are some examples; I'm merely listing them, not endorsing nor condemning each.
Sugar Mamas and MILFs are the most obvious examples of SMV arbitrage. Older women make themselves more easily available for sex than younger women, to younger, higher SMV men than they could pull from their own age bracket. Younger men get easier, more experienced and varied, and sometimes compensated sex, often with a higher SMV, albeit aged woman.
Alpha male in a college town of pussies Younger women date older, established, masculine men with strong leadership traits because they're more appealing than their weak-willed young male cohorts. Older men date these younger women because younger women.
Age gap Younger women date substantially older males for a multiplier on the status and resource value they find in their own age cohort SMP. Older men date them because again, younger women.
Class difference The beautiful Ghetto Queen "dating up" to a rich established upper class man, and the rebellious rich girl who sleeps with broke louts to anger her father are other classic, well-established examples of SMV arbitrage.
Beta bux Woman dates lower-SMV male for his resources but doesn't respect him. Man gets higher-SMV woman than he thinks possible in the "free" relationship market at a cost of wealth and some dignity.
Single moms are at a severe disadvantage in the SMP and they KNOW it. Therefore, they're often willing to settle, meaning accept a lower-SMV man than desired who expresses interest in her for lack of better suitors. For men, they often prefer part-time sex only and thus can make easy, excellent plates. However, they're fraught with danger and warned against by TRP, particularly for young inexperienced men. Honestly though, for older men there comes a point when virtually your entire dating pool either has custodial children or doesn't which is often worse because crazy; if you're going to have to date single moms beware the pitfalls and do it well.
Butterface or chubby women Women with a physical disadvantage in the SMP make themselves more readily available to higher-SMV males. Men may enjoy the banging body or doll face, but you know what they say about mopeds...
Crime of opportunity/Unlikely Pairing An affair between two people who ordinarily wouldn't even be in the same sexual market, because of marital status, substantial demographic differences etc., but manage to pair up anyway often through mere propinquity; sometimes the dissonant unlikelyhood of the pairing itself is a major part of the mutual hotness therefore value-added of the relationship.
Artificial market concentrations such as an isolated women's college, or a local church known for producing relative unicorns can make geographic travel worthwhile for a man looking for a structural advantage in his personal sexual marketplace.
As you can see, SMP Arbitrage offers advantages in the sexual marketplace, however, there are virtually always trade-offs in every transaction, resulting in a different ceiling in each sexual marketplace a man enters. How is a man to go beyond this ceiling once he's found his in every two-way sexual marketplace and transaction type he's tried?
Triangular trade transcends the limits and can multiply the values obtained over simple two-way trades
Triangular and more complicated trading geometries can result in margins far greater than can be reached in mature, saturated two-way trading markets. In economics, this means literal triangular trade routes like sugar and meat from one port to fruit and distilled spirits from another port to lumber and factory goods from a third port; as well as virtual triangular trades in the stock and commodities markets.
In the sexual marketplace, the value of plating and abundance mentality can be explored under this economic rubric.
Having a high N count is a disadvantage in the SMV for women, and women know this. Therefore, once they've slept with a given man, sleeping with him more doesn't increase her count, therefore can be hamstered as less-slutty sex, even without commitment beyond more sex in the future from the man. Gentlemen, this is one of your greatest assets in the plating game! Remember it, and leverage it to your fullest advantage in assembling and maintaining your soft harem of girlfriends and plates.
Triangular trading in the SMP done correctly spreads and averages the downsides and disadvantages across a man's entire love life, ideally down to an imperceptible level.
Some examples of triangular SMP trades:
Has Beta Bux husband/BF, cheats with Alpha Chad One of the more obvious examples of SMP triangular trade, and the essence of Hypergamy. Be Chad. Don't be Beta Bob.
Plain, stable wife; hot, dangerous mistress Another common trope in popular media and movies and obvious example of a triangular trade
Stable wife, paid side mistress More stable, less dangerous than above, still costly to the male. Usually this situation arises when a married man has a love child- oops! Side woman offers sex and keeps quiet in exchange for ongoing resources
Open, live-in MFF triad The unicorn of relationship types, usually requires outlier-high SMV including material wealth. Man usually pays dearly in this situation, but it arises precicely because he can afford it; this is the incentive to the women, and for the man, hey! Two women!
Main public GF/wife, hidden side plates The main wheelhouse of advantageous relationship geometries for the man. The woman publicly ignores her husband's peccadillos to maintain her social and financial status; the husband gets variety at a negotiated relationship cost or at the price and risk of flat-out cheating. Prenegotiating a MFF geometry front-loads the relationship with a cost of effort and drama, but potentially lower ongoing costs. Cheating involves no costs of explaining or negotiating upfront at the risk of an extinction-level event if found out. Pick your path, Sirs.
Uncommitted bachelor with several GFs The ideal way to go, ethically and effort-wise. Some might be prettier, some might be easier; the man gets variety, with a balance of upsides and downsides across the board; the women usually find this arrangement to an advantage, at least because of the N count factor once she's been woth you.
Main relationship + disadvantaged side relationship Sometimes a SMP disparity in one of your trades has value not in increased SMV of the woman, but the level of costs and potential risks of the relationship. For example, a man caught cheating with a disadvantaged woman who can spin it as "helping her up in the process" rather than "taking advantage of the poor woman." For example, choosing a plain, broke woman from work or church to cheat with, rather than a hot stripper that's much harder to rationalize if revealed.
Generally, triangular trade advantages in the SMP refer to finding trades that make sense in context with your other relationships, that might not necessarily make sense alone as a 2-way trade.
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sadomasochrist 7y ago
Mostly good. Also agree on post that most of this, if not all, is not arbitrage.
This is purple pill. The church angle is purple pill, but an all girls college is likely target rich. That wouldn't be arbitrage though, but looking for high ROI. More specifically, a high close rate. Hot leads, etc.
[deleted] 7y ago
Hey OP,
the examples that you provide are not examples of arbitrage. You are free to use the word "arbitrage" any way that you want to, but don't refer to "arbitrage" as an economic principle and then use it incorrectly.
here's an example of arbitrage: You buy a 100 tons of Iron from Mexico at 10 cents per pound. You then sell those 100 tons of Iron in the United States for 12 cents a pound.
That's arbitrage. You are taking advantage of price disparity between two markets.
Your examples are not arbitrage because you're not taking advantage of any market disparity; you're simply pointing out established market dynamics.
Here's one of your examples:
What market are you taking advantage of in this example? You've simply stated a truism of the SMP and called "arbitrage." Older women are worth less in the SMP than younger women. So, the cost of obtaining older pussy is lower than the cost of obtaining younger pussy. This isn't arbitrage, it's supply and demand. there is less demand for older pussy. to reiterate, buying cheaper pussy is not arbitrage, per se.
Here's a real example of SMP arbitrage. You live and work in the United States making $40K a year. In the USA, this is chump change, you're basically poor. But in other countries, this is a lot of money. So you take advantage of the economic disparity between markets and use your American wage to leverage pussy from a poorer market, like the Philippines where the average wage is $300 a month.
Thus, your $40K a year can't buy you good pussy in America, but it can buy you good pussy in the Philippines. You take advantage of that disparity by using your American wages to buy Philippine pussy. That's arbitrage.
TLDR buying cheaper pussy isn't arbitrage. Arbitrage is buying expensive pussy at a cheaper price because of disparities in markets.
RedEyesBlueShades 7y ago
That's also not, strictly speaking, arbitrage. Arbitrage is only present if it entails riskless profit, which the above is not. You buy in Mexico, but unless you have a guaranteed buyer in the US, there's the risk of not selling. Or the market going against you. The premium compensates for this risk. You are carrying inventory, which is risky, hence premium.
More to this point, most of the retailer do just that - Take some risk by carrying inventory, and sell at a higher price. This is not arbitrage, the grandma at the corner store is not an arbitrageur.
To make it riskless the price disparity must happen almost instantaneously, one online broker bidding at 12, the other offering at 10. This you can exploit without carrying any inventory. And also why arbitrage is generally only available in online markets. t
I'm sure, though, in the past your more extended definition of arbitrage was valid, when markets were much more stable.
MentORPHEUS Endorsed Contributor 7y ago
I'm not an economics major, but felt certain one would be along to fine tune this metaphor that as far as I've seen, has never been applied to the sexual marketplace. Thanks for your input, now here's why I think arbitrage is a good metaphor.
In the example you pointed out, the younger man finds sex within his own sexual market (women his age at his college) is costly and difficult to obtain. It's a buyer's market for young women in this demographic, so the average frustrated College chump can take several women his age out to dinner a week and get no sex.
Instead, he turns to the Milf market; a pool of older post-wall women lacking a stream of eager men. Market conditions are such that she will take HIM out to dinner, and for sure have sex. Boom, Arbitrage FTW!
I deliberately left out the example of sex tourism as arbitrage; not so much because I'm personally not into prostitution and consider it a deux ex machina cheat in Game. The idea of this article is to help people think of their own personal sexual marketplace in economic terms, so when they're not finding success in the market they've been shopping in, they have a rubric in place to formulate an actionable plan: start shopping your SMV around different sexual markets, what you bring to the table can have a dramatically different value in each.
Unlike economic markets, sexual markets can overlay the same geographic area. Humans artificially divide themselves by age, class, race etc, and self-enforce these arbitrary boundaries strongly enough to make for widely differing sexual markets right in the same neighborhood.
[deleted] 7y ago
I understand your point, and I agree with what you're saying.
I'm just pointing out that arbitrage is not the term you're looking for.
Here's what you're saying: You can buy a new fully loaded Honda Accord for $35K or you can buy a fully loaded two-year-old Accord for $28K. If you can afford to buy a $28K car, but not a $35K car, then there's nothing wrong with buying the used car. With both cars, you're getting essentially the same features, but the used car costs less because of depreciation. Depending on your value proposition, you're getting more value in the used car than the new car. However, if you value owning a new car, then the lower cost of the used car might not add value to the sale. A lot of guys who buy sports/ performance cars don't want to buy used because you don't know what the previous owner did to it. For example, i would never buy a used WRX/STI because people beat the shit out of them. Thus, I value the new car more than the cheaper old car.
Older women have depreciated. Fat women are simply worth less in the SMP than healthy women, so you can "buy" them for less.
What you're saying is that you can find value in the SMP if you know where to look, just like you can find value on the car dealership lot if you know where to look.
I'm just saying that this isn't "arbitrage." To continue the car metaphor: In the United States, big V8 engines are relatively cheap. You can get a V8 Camaro for $30K. In Europe, cars with V8 engines are taxed to the point where most people can't afford them. So, what you can do is buy the car in America, and import it into Europe. A lot of rich Chinese people buy their cars in America and import them back to China. Even with the import fees, it's still cheaper than buying an American car in China because of their ridiculous trade tariffs. That's an example of Arbitrage.
With arbitrage, two commodities have the same value, but have a different cost because of the inherent differences between markets (such as protectionist trade tariffs in China). Making a choice between two similar commodities based on value propositions, like new vs. used is not arbitrage.
MentORPHEUS Endorsed Contributor 7y ago
Well, one could spend the day sperging out trying to make an economic analogy literally fit the sexual marketplace. Me, I'm going to use this information to obtain better pussy values in the world. Ciao!
theredpillager 7y ago
Really enjoyed this. Great breakdown of common/likely scenarios in the sexual marketplace. I would have liked to see some examples/coverage about exploring other sexual markets you omitted, but could/should be an option on the table for many men. Prostitution comes to mind. Also, some perspective on foreign sexual marketplaces, be it foreigners in the local market or actually searching the foreign marketplace itself. Brazil, Thailand, Russia, etc.
MentORPHEUS Endorsed Contributor 7y ago
As I detailed upthread, traveling to another country with money earned in the USA market is classic economic arbitrage. The idea of Sexual Marketplace Arbitrage applies to your own reasonable geographic region, but recognizing that several parallel sexual marketplaces exist within this, and what you bring to the table has a different value in each. One doesn't have to travel to apply this theory, these markets exist right there in your own county.
TheYoungOwl_ 7y ago
I love how you approached the sexual marketplace and brought out a scientific report about the entirety of it economically.
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