>The modern dating culture is a cancer. Totally agree, I wasn't defending it just pointing out reality >Having sex with strangers should be a mental hump From an evo-psych perspective there's something to be said for conquering a woman, but once you do it she should have your children and you should protect what you've conquered. Of course, that's completely fucked up and reversed in modern society. The conquest is the goal instead of a means to an end. So I think you're right, drugs and alcohol take away that empty feeling of giving up what you conquered.