mASF post by "Colonel Monkey"
posted on: USENet: alt.seduction.fast newsgroup, February 2, 2001a playboy mag article, interesting shit for college dudes out there. i know
for a fact in my school women outnumber men by a vast majority, but this
seems to be a widespread phenomenon.
By Lynda Twardowski
Pop Quiz:
1. Have your cheesy pick-up lines-suddenly started working with the coeds on
campus?
2. Does your dorm-room doorknob have a standing date with your sock every
Friday night?
3. Is your silk panty collection flourishing?
4. Have you run out of room for any more notches on your bedpost?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may think you're a real
Romeo. Well, we've got news for you -- it's probably not your good looks and
charm that are responsible for your recent luck with the ladies on campus.
It's just a matter of statistics. Put simply, women far outnumber men on
college campuses. Female students edged into the majority in 1979 and the
college gender gap has been widening ever since.
Looks like these guys from our Conference USA spread like the fact that U.
North Carolina-Charlotte is 54 percent female.
Today, men make up over 51 percent of the general population, but they are
receiving only 45 percent of the bachelor degrees. Compare that with 30
years ago when guys were landing 57 percent of all bachelor degrees, and 50
years ago, when they were taking home a whopping 76 percent. Tom Mortenson,
a higher-education policy analyst, told Playboy.com that if the trend
continues at the same rate of decline, there won't be a single man wearing a
mortarboard by graduation day 2068.
The trend hasn't gone unnoticed. The Washington Post and U.S. News & World
Report have printed articles examining how the decline of male enrollment in
college is affecting classroom dynamics, campus services and the future
economy. That's serious stuff. And even though many of the implications of
the widening gender gap are sobering, Playboy.com wanted to explore the
sexier ramifications of this trend: Namely, if there are more women than men
on campus, does that mean it's easier for guys to get laid?
The New Mating Game
U. Alabama-Birmingham, where these Girls of Conference USA models go to
school, is a whopping 57 percent female.
If you apply the simple laws of supply and demand, it stands to reason that
guys are the ones who benefit from the glut of female students on campus. At
colleges where women outnumber the guys by two, sometimes even three to one,
male students have suddenly found themselves in demand when it comes to
dating and mating.
"There are enough women to go around here...twice," says S.A. Rosenberg, a
senior at American University in Washington, D.C., where women make up 60
percent of the student body. "Fraternity guys are getting laid a lot here.
But there's action for everyone, even for guys who aren't in frats," adds
Rosenberg.
At the University of Charleston, W.V., women account for a whopping 69
percent of all students, which leaves the typically testosterone-charged
college guy with some seriously good odds. Just ask Nick Quinn, a senior at
Charleston. "I know plenty of guys who date more than one chick at a time,
and most of the chicks know about it. I know one guy who's dating two
sisters," he says. "There's an endless supply."
Sound like your dream school? Going to a college where women make up the
majority has other benefits, too. At the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill, guys make up less than 40 percent of the student population. M. Wilson
Burdorff, a senior, says the view is fantastic: "You're literally just
walking around and there's women everywhere. We just sit around on the quad
and watch beautiful women all day. The girl watching here is...lovely."
Round and Round She Goes
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And college chicks who are
faced with fewer choices and -- well, let's face it -- raging hormones, are
going the extra mile. Guys claim coeds are adopting more aggressive tactics
to land dates: asking guys out, offering to "group date" (two or more girls
going out with the same guy) and hosting parties for their crushes. Some
women are willing to go even farther than that to impress the guys.
"At a party last weekend, four girls all hooked up with each other. And the
reason they're doing it is because there are guys at the party, and the
women know [chicks on chicks] is the immediate way to draw attention from
the guys," says Jarrett Bellini, a senior at American U.
Gorgeous girls like these Pac Ten models are everywhere at the U. Oregon,
which is 53 percent women.
Of course, not all ladies are willing to play tag team. "Uh, no," says Amy
Piper, a former undergrad at Michigan State (54 percent female), who is now
a grad student at Ohio State (49.7 percent female). "We joked about it being
unbalanced at Michigan State, but we weren't that desperate."
Other coeds fed up with sharing the same dating supply are seeking main
squeezes off-campus. At Fisk University in Nashville, where women make up 71
percent of the population, one female junior, who refused to give us her
name, says chicks have flown the coop altogether: "The dating scene is so
difficult ... The females here go outside the college campus."
Ditto at UNC-Chapel Hill, admits Burdorff: "A lot of the girls I know go to
North Carolina State in Raleigh to meet guys. It's a tech school -- there's
way more guys there than here."
Majority Rules
If you haven't already started taking advantage of the unlevel playing
field, you'd better get in the game now, because the gravy train may not
last forever. College administrators are scrambling to find ways to close
the gender gap. Many schools, like the University of Dallas, have expanded
or created more athletic opportunities to attract male students. And a few
colleges have taken more extreme measures.
Despite the abundance of beautiful Berkeley girls in our October 1999 Pac
Ten spread, the campus is split 50-50.
Administrators at the University of Georgia tried to take the edge off the
gender disparity problem by giving men preferential treatment in admissions.
But after being sued by a woman who felt she was rejected because of her
gender, they changed the policy in 1999.
Who knows if administrators will find a way to even out the guy-girl ratio?
But for now, let the good times roll. You'll probably never have such good
odds again, so get out and make the most of the new mating game.
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