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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>
-Providing for offspring does not make men or women happy.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> This suggests providing acts as [[dominance hierarchy|dominance signaling]] and or the psychological benefits of sex, increased social status, companionship and a relationship outweigh the psychological stress of having to raise offspring.
+More reproductive success does not make people happier, presumably due to the additional effort of raising the offspring.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> This suggests that even though reproductive success is what matters from the point of view of the genes, people are primarily driven to reproduce by the psychological and social near-term benefits of sex and companionship.
 == Reproductive strategies ==