While it has varied throughout the years, current expectations and degeneracy levels are off the charts, primarily due to the "entertainment" and "networking" mediums of the current age.
Spot on. The issues really don't ever have to do with men, since most men realize they
must work to be considered men or valuable, and technology or media doesn't tend to help men (it does help some) but rather mostly hurt women (and their decisions). The point is that the way the fallen world is set up is that either you have a minority of men behaving badly (when men control things) or a majority of women behaving badly (when gynocentrism runs amok). You don't get civilization with the latter, since it tends far towards polygamy, which we are now seeing in full swing in the West, which includes the runaway processes that are associated with it, decreasing fertility and greater laziness regarding relationships that are fake commitments, in actuality.
On one hand, wearing a Virgin billboard over your head isn't going to attract many women. On the other, telling your wife about how many whores you've bedded before her won't endear yourself to her either. The way I see it, the more you sleep around, the more you are robbing from your future wife.
I think the balance you guys are looking for here is that the woman secretly wants experience and expertise with confidence, but doesn't want to know about how it was acquired or that it be talked about. There are ideals in the world, but we're way late stage here (that doesn't make anything right, just being honest about things), and experience and time is never desired in women, which is why men always want virgins, since those attributes are quite obviously related to knowing the man's children and loyalty to him, since she knew no other. I said runaway process above because every single characteristic that makes a woman a good partner for a man, or a wife let's say, is one that comes with youth. Period.
You can get away with the young pairings of 20 year olds and it's quite healthy, but you can't have media/tech/propaganda at hand. The couple has to have buy in and usually religious background, or a culture that approximates something similar. When I woke up this morning I thought about how age gaps make sense for both women and men, and how bizarre it is that they are hated, as a young man literally has less of everything, apart from a relative abundance of testosterone. Since men aren't lacking in T however, from late 20s to 30s, it doesn't really make much sense for there not to be pairings of at least 7-10 year age gaps to me, to be honest. In societies where women aren't alongside and competing with men, this is far more obvious as the right way, or at least the more natural one. I think the closer/younger age pairings only really happened in our recent past, to be honest, when women and men who are still alive now went to college and married at ages 20-24, a couple years apart at most, and largely due to physical (school) proximity as the match process. Of course, since women weren't taken all that seriously as workers still until really the 1980s, women were culturally still all following each other and getting married before 25, for sure. As in all normal places. I've found that any culture that doesn't really impress being older than 25 and unmarried as a mistake or something to be fixed soon is doing their women a huge disservice.
