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Hence, women's love style more opportunistic and transactional than men's. Women are loved unconditionally, men are not. | Hence, women's love style more opportunistic and transactional than men's. Women are loved unconditionally, men are not. | ||
Women have been dependent on men's resources throughout history, for example, in historical societies women were much more involved cooking than in resource extraction<ref>https://doi.org/10.2307/3773347</ref>. Hence, the principles of economics can be applied to sexual market: Women can sell exclusive access to sex because men have higher sex drive and desire certainty about their parenthood, and men can sell the resources because women depend on them.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | Women have been dependent on men's resources throughout history, for example, in historical societies women were much more involved cooking than in resource extraction<ref>https://doi.org/10.2307/3773347</ref>. Hence, the principles of economics can be applied to sexual market: Women can sell exclusive access to sex because men have higher sex drive and desire certainty about their parenthood, and men can sell the resources because women depend on them.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> This means, welfare and affirmative action for women reduces the value of men's goods in the sexual market. | ||
There is evidence that hypergamy has intensified in the recent years. Namely, the top 5-20% of men (ie. "Chads") are now having more sex than ever before.<ref>Harper CR, Dittus PJ, Leichliter JS, Aral, SO. Changes in the Distribution of Sex Partners in the United States: 2002 to 2011–2013. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: February 2017 - Volume 44 - Issue 2 - p 96–100. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000554</ref><ref>https://journals.lww.com/stdjournal/Fulltext/2017/02000/Changes_in_the_Distribution_of_Sex_Partners_in_the.5.aspx</ref> | There is evidence that hypergamy has intensified in the recent years. Namely, the top 5-20% of men (ie. "Chads") are now having more sex than ever before.<ref>Harper CR, Dittus PJ, Leichliter JS, Aral, SO. Changes in the Distribution of Sex Partners in the United States: 2002 to 2011–2013. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: February 2017 - Volume 44 - Issue 2 - p 96–100. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000554</ref><ref>https://journals.lww.com/stdjournal/Fulltext/2017/02000/Changes_in_the_Distribution_of_Sex_Partners_in_the.5.aspx</ref> | ||