Hypergamy: Difference between revisions

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 more than the other party to reach an arrangement.  Men desire initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gender more than women.<ref>https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gender-differences-in-receptivity-to-sexual-offers.pdf</ref>  Thus, having more interest, men often need to compromise much more than women in order to get any sex at all.<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref>  Women, with the least interest in initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gende,r<ref>https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gender-differences-in-receptivity-to-sexual-offers.pdf</ref> largely decide the terms of sex.