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===Academic overview=== | ===Academic overview=== | ||
'''In academia''', researchers suggest that marriage is naturally more likely to occur the more resources a man has compared to the woman.<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | '''In academia''', researchers suggest that marriage is naturally more likely to occur the more resources a man has compared to the woman.<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | ||
This is due to the fact that men desire sex more than women, giving women a power advantage, part of what is broadly referred to as the, "principle of least interest". Sex then becomes a, "'''female''' resource for social exchange", in which a, "broad range of valued goods", are competed for by men in order to, ''purchase'' sex from women with this broad array of (often non-monetary) resources.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> Females compete with each other to, "sell high", in the form of withholding sex,<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> slut-shaming, and gossip. Whereas male sexual competition takes the form of amassing the "broad range of valued goods". This male bribery and female [[pussy cartel|cartel behaviour]] creates a situation where women gravitate towards men with higher degrees of resources than other men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | This is due to the fact that men desire sex more than women, giving women a power advantage, part of what is broadly referred to as the, "principle of least interest". Sex then becomes a, "'''female''' resource for social exchange", in which a, "broad range of valued goods", are competed for by men in order to, ''purchase'' sex from women with this broad array of (often non-monetary) resources.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> Females compete with each other to, "sell high", in the form of withholding sex,<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> slut-shaming, and gossip. Whereas male sexual competition takes the form of amassing the "broad range of valued goods". This male resource bribery and female [[pussy cartel|cartel behaviour]] creates a situation where women gravitate towards men with higher degrees of resources than other men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | ||
There are mixed results about the importance of a power differential regarding income and education for women's marital (aka post-wedding) satisfaction. | There are mixed results about the importance of a power differential regarding income and education for women's marital (aka post-wedding) satisfaction. | ||