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==Women commodify sex== | ==Women commodify sex== | ||
[[File:needs33.png|500x500px|right|thumb|The choosier sex (i.e. ''least interested'') gets to ''date up'']] | [[File:needs33.png|500x500px|right|thumb|The choosier sex (i.e. ''least interested'') gets to ''date up'']] | ||
Human males naturally provide resources to females and the offspring which distinguishes | Human males naturally provide resources to females and the offspring which distinguishes them 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 protect themselves from promiscuous men of poor quality and thus evolved to be coy, i.e. [[libido|reluctant to having sex]]. | 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]]. | ||