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Both men and women aim up to roughly the same extent and few aim unrealistically high,<ref>https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/8/eaap9815.full.pdf</ref> | Both men and women aim up to roughly the same extent and few aim unrealistically high,<ref>https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/8/eaap9815.full.pdf</ref> | ||
but since men have fewer alternative mating options available to them, they more readily make compromises and eventually date down,<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> | but since men have fewer alternative mating options available to them, they more readily make compromises and eventually date down,<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> | ||
particularly | particularly if they experience frequent rejection.<ref>https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1864-9335/a000392</ref> | ||
One can regard sexual relationships as a deal and study them with the principles of economics. | One can regard sexual relationships as a deal and study them with the principles of economics. | ||
Women | Women want resources from men because women have been dependent on men's resources throughout history.<ref>https://doi.org/10.2307/3773347</ref> | ||
Men want sex and also certainty that the offspring in which they invest their resources is theirs (a problem that women do not face).<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12496732</ref> | Men want sex and also certainty that the offspring in which they invest their resources is theirs (a problem that women do not face).<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12496732</ref> | ||
One can thus model the sexual market as one in which men can sell the resources and women can sell exclusive access to sex.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | One can thus model the sexual market as one in which men can sell the resources and women can sell exclusive access to sex.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | ||