Sex and Economics

Tim Harford discusses new research on the strategic use of assets and the question of virginity.

Many years ago I wrote a review essay on Richard Posner's Sex and Reason, while checking out of the library at NYU with a handful of books by anthropologists on unusual sexual practices and legal books on rulings concerning sexual behavior I ran into one of my freshman honors students (who was working at the library as the check out person).  She looked at me in shock, I just pointed to the pile of books and said "Research".