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====The principle of least interest==== | ====The principle of least interest==== | ||
In the absence of [[Sexual Marxism|sexual marxism]]/fascism or otherwise socially arranged relationships, women are the chief [[sexual selector|sexual selectors]] due to the ''principle of least interest'': When an activity depends on mutual agreement, the person with the ''least interest'' decides the terms of that activity.<ref>Waller & Hill, 1951</ref> This is because the person with the most interest has less options, thus they must compromise to reach an arrangement, men often need to compromise in order to get any sex at all,<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> | In the absence of [[Sexual Marxism|sexual marxism]]/fascism or otherwise socially arranged relationships, women are the chief [[sexual selector|sexual selectors]] due to the ''principle of least interest'': When an activity depends on mutual agreement, the person with the ''least interest'' decides the terms of that activity.<ref>Waller & Hill, 1951</ref> This is because the person with the most interest has less options, thus they must compromise to reach an arrangement. Men have desire initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gender more than women. Thus, having more interest, men often need to compromise in order to get any sex at all,<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> while women, with the least interest, decide the terms. | ||
====Female monopoly on sex makes women a leisure class==== | ====Female monopoly on sex makes women a leisure class==== | ||