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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>  


Men do not become happier by producing more offspring.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> This suggests it is rather things like 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 contexts, the number of offspring can possibly act as [[dominance hierarchy|dominance signaling]].
Men are not happy providing for offspring.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> This suggests providing acts as [[dominance hierarchy|dominance signaling]].


== Reproductive strategies ==
== Reproductive strategies ==

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