Male Economic Impotency

A motel room on the California central coast is now running over $300 a night with taxes and fees. Who can afford this? Not most men, even those with good jobs.

With all the recent talk of male impotency—sexual dysfunction—I hear very little about an equally widespread and devastating contemporary condition: economic impotency.

A man’s productivity, defined by his economic output, is the source and measure of his virility. Without it, he has little to offer society or women, in particular. Notwithstanding the surge in house husbands, this reality has not changed. Men who do not work but rather stay at home to cook, clean, and raise children are not respected or desired by women. Men must produce, not only reproduce, to remain vital. Yet here in the United States, they are becoming more impotent by the day.