<i>...the male who feels entitled to sex is a distinct Western phenomenon.</i><p>Have you ever traveled outside the West? This statement is just wrong.<p>Historically, some societies had to <i>break</i> less successful men of this sense of entitlement, for reasons of arithmetic, e.g. societies with polygyny or strict women-marry-up norms. When this breaking was done, it was most often in strict Maslow-hierarchy terms. So poor men were so poor that they were literally starving, or they got Shanghaied onto a ship, etc. You see something similar with &quot;fundamentalist&quot; Mormons in western USA today: daughters are locked in the house, while many sons are abused, underfed, and overworked until they run away.