Dr. Wendy Walsh on The Value of Sex

The price of sex has dropped from, in our grandmother's generation, it was probably a year of dating, in my generation it was 3 dates. We had a thing called the 3-date Rule in the 80's. Now the price of sex has dropped down to the barrel-bottom price of one well-worded text. What it takes to grow a long term bond isn't sex. It's everything else! It's communication skills, conflict resolution skills, empathy, compassion. It's really hard to develop those when your brain is being assaulted with a dopamine rush not unlike the one you get from heroine that you get from a new sexual relationship. Men can have sex with the same woman every week for 6 months and not like her any more after 6 months than they did on the first day. Just because you're having sex, doesn't mean you're in love.