Close your legs, bitch!

In Time is an upcoming scifi movie in which time is currency, but researchers say we already have an alternate form of currency: sex.

In fact, a recent NY Post article claims that the “price” of sex has fallen to a record low, mainly because women are getting down and dirty much sooner than they used to.

“The price of sex is about how much one party has to do in order to entice the other into being sexual,” said Kathleen Vohs, of the University of Minnesota, who has authored several papers on sexual economics. “It might mean buying her a drink or an engagement ring. These behaviors vary in how costly they are to the man, and that is how we quantify the price of sex.”

Women’s Suffrage, the Pill and Internet porn are all to blame for this deflation, social psychologists and sociologists say. They also blame the economics of supply and demand, likening the price of sex to the failing housing market.

Too many foreclosures in one community, and the price of neighboring homes start to plummet. This is why single women in New York sometimes feel as though sex on the first date is a given: According to the market, it is.

So what’s a single girl to do?

Jack shit, say researchers, as the only solution is for women to collectively declare their sexual sovereignty–to cross their legs and deny men their sweet, magical lady flowers–and we all know too many sluts for that plan to work.

So the next time you complain that there just aren’t enough eligible men out there or that your man is unwilling to commit, remember that it’s not their fault. It’s your fellow woman’s.