How the heck are we lying to dudes saying college, where that kind of behavior is rampant, is somehow paradise. Like we are lying our behinds off to these men.
Maybe back in the day before social media or back in the 80s, college was that time.
The college mating scene has changed since the 1980s or even the early 2000s when I was an undergrad.
It does retain some advantages over the mating scene in the working world though.
A college campus has a lot of built in social structure for making friends and for finding mating opportunities that are difficult to replicate for working phase of life adults.
A lot of the college advantage is muted by the fact that most women on campus will have boyfriends at any given moment. However, at least these women are unmarried. In the working phase of life, most women could either have a boyfriend or be married at any given moment.
If I arrange a date on a weeknight with a start time of 7:30-8:30 PM with a fellow college student while I am a college student, I can take it later into the night without worrying about the after effects of the next day. It's easier to skip a Wednesday or Thursday morning college class or go to it half zoned out as compared to doing that with a job.
The same thing can be true for nightlife approaching on weekdays, especially Thursday nights. Many college students don't have Friday classes or schedule all their Friday classes to start after 12 PM. Thursday nights can get wild at college bars (undergrad and grad student population).
From the 1980s-early 2000s, it was more common to find longer lasting relationships while on campus. Once the Millennials started arriving on campus in the early 2000s, fewer college formed relationships were standing the test of the time.
I think one of the biggest changes in the college mating scene now is the change in biological sex ratios.
When I was evaluating colleges in my senior year of high school in 2000-2001, most of the colleges I evaluated had around a 50-50 ratio. Now, more colleges have a heavier female skew, something like 60-40 women. Additionally, graduate school programs that were around like 25-30% women in the 2000s are now nearly 50% women.
The Gen Z social dynamics on campuses are different than my Millennial era in the 2000s being in undergrad and graduate school. Gen Z grew up with more technology and didn't develop stronger in person skills. While the in-person social skills of 1980s born Millennials wasn't superb, it was superior to the late 1990s/early 2000s Gen Z's.