Trusted, Automoderated users
17,538
edits
Hypergamy: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Women commodify sex
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
Human males naturally provide resources to females and the offspring which distinguishes us from other primates.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/Privileged-Sex-Martin-van-Creveld/dp/1484983122</ref> | Human males naturally provide resources to females and the offspring which distinguishes us from other primates.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/Privileged-Sex-Martin-van-Creveld/dp/1484983122</ref> | ||
This dependence likely evolved because women have more [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], so they specialized in childcare and extracting resources from men. | This dependence likely evolved because women have more [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], so they specialized in childcare and extracting resources from men. | ||
Since men are spared from childcare, they can increase their [[reproductive success]] by impregnating many women ([[pump and dump]]). Women, in return, need to | Since men are spared from childcare, they can increase their [[reproductive success]] by impregnating many women ([[pump and dump]]). Women, in return, need to protect themselves from promiscuous men of poor quality and thus evolved to be coy, i.e. [[libido|reluctant to having sex]]. | ||
As a result, women desire initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gender much less than men.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_like_61.9.25_of_female_profiles.2C_women_like_only_4.5.25_of_male_profiles</ref> | As a result, women desire initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gender much less than men.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_like_61.9.25_of_female_profiles.2C_women_like_only_4.5.25_of_male_profiles</ref> | ||