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and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times more messages. But lots of evidence can also be elsewhere, for example men want sex sooner and women were found to wait much longer before having sex the more physically unattractive her partner. | and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times more messages. But lots of evidence can also be elsewhere, for example men want sex sooner and women were found to wait much longer before having sex the more physically unattractive her partner. | ||
[[Hypergamy]] in women, i.e. the tendency to ''date up'', is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, a woman not only | [[Hypergamy]] in women, i.e. the tendency to ''date up'', is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, a woman tends to not only want a good partner, but one who is better than herself or better than other available partners or her current partner. E.g. women with higher income tend to have preference for a man with even higher income.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-103408</ref> | ||
Women are also prone to instability when they are more attractive than their male partner.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691500505X</ref> | Women are also prone to instability when they are more attractive than their male partner.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691500505X</ref> | ||
There is evidence of some women refusing to date down in educational status | There is evidence of some women refusing to date down in educational status or marry men with lower income than their own, and preferring to remain single when they cannot find such a partner.<ref>https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref><ref>https://fee.org/articles/why-single-women-are-way-more-likely-to-own-a-home-than-single-men/</ref><ref>https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-release/journal-marriage-and-family/do-unmarried-women-face-shortages-partners-us-marriage-mar</ref> | ||
As women surpass men in socioeconomic | As women surpass men in socioeconomic status, hypergamy implies that more men are becoming unattractive to women. | ||
Hypergamy also naturally follows from sex differences in sex drive: Men have a [[Libido|higher sex drive]],<ref>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-There-a-Gender-Difference-in-Strength-of-Sex-and-Baumeister-Catanese/5f8446340d4ed375007351539e7993fa44e2e31b</ref> | Hypergamy also naturally follows from sex differences in sex drive: Men have a [[Libido|higher sex drive]],<ref>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-There-a-Gender-Difference-in-Strength-of-Sex-and-Baumeister-Catanese/5f8446340d4ed375007351539e7993fa44e2e31b</ref> | ||