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Marina Adshade
Economics Professor, Dalhousie University
Marina Adshade writes the blog Dollars and Sex for Big Think. She is an assistant professor in the department of economics at Dalhousie University and teaches a popular undergraduate course called the Economics of Sex and Love. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Queen’s University.
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University classes are starting so I thought I would write a blog post that would encourage students to think about the world. This idea came from a project that was […]
We have this perception that most cheating that goes on in marriage is among the extremely wealthy. Well, of course we do. When a man in the bottom of the […]
Internet dating sites in India report that educated women are now less interested in meeting US men who work on Wall Street and more interested in marrying resident civil servants.
One might think that men would have to pay prostitutes a premium to have sex without a condom. But a new study of the sex trade in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez suggests the opposite.
Our stereotype of strip club workers is that they don't have a lot on the ball. But a new study of UK lap dancers shows they are more educated than the typical Brit.
Last week we talked about promiscuity and I gave you a chance to take a test to measure what psychologists call “sociosexuality”—which I referred to as promiscuity. When you took […]
Here is a puzzle: if promiscuity has increased over the past century and if the cause of that increase was really a fall in the risk of pregnancy, then why […]