Hypergamy: Difference between revisions

Women desire initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gender much less than men.<ref>https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gender-differences-in-receptivity-to-sexual-offers.pdf</ref>  This gives women almost all the power in sexual matters, part of what is broadly referred to in sociology as the "principle of least interest".<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref>  All other things being equal, the person with the least interest in initiating something generally decides the terms of that activity.<ref>Waller & Hill, 1951</ref>  Women naturally want resource security in relationships much more than men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381730315X</ref>

As women are the sexual selectors, when they sexually reject men based on "what men have to offer" they are sexually commodifying '''themselves''' with a certain exchange value. Sex, in the absence of [[Sexual Marxism|Sexual Marxism/Fascism]] then becomes a "'''female''' commodified 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 strategically withholding sex they would otherwise like to have,<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> slut-shaming, and gossip.  Whereas male sexual competition takes the form of amassing the "broad range of valued goods": fame, wealth etc.  When men compete in terms of resources and women raise the resource cost of sex, this creates a situation where the men with the most resources get the most sexual access.  

In other words, women pair "up" in resource status among men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref>  Women, being the sellers of the sexual access they collectively commodify as much as possible, can choose '''whenever they want to have sex''' by merely accepting a buyer or lowering their price.  Whereas men must engage in the work necessary to amass the resources required to buy what women collectively commodify if women refuse to submit to [[Sexual Marxism]] or give sex away for free and without discrimination.