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Around 60% of incels on [[incels.co]] are not interested in "reproductive success", but only want love and companionship. A quarter of those incels would consider adoptive children. Around 40% do want children of their own.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/survey-results-for-october-2019.147774/</ref> | Around 60% of incels on [[incels.co]] are not interested in "reproductive success", but only want love and companionship. A quarter of those incels would consider adoptive children. Around 40% do want children of their own.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/survey-results-for-october-2019.147774/</ref> | ||
A man producing more offspring than another does not make him happier.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> So it is more likely warm body contact, orgasms and dominance status and the act of satisfying a woman that provide positive emotion, not reproductive success itself. Though in some cultural context number of offspring can probably act as dominance signaling. | |||
== Reproductive strategies == | == Reproductive strategies == | ||