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<!--Due to women's dependence on men, women naturally want resource security in relationships much more than men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381730315X</ref>-->In terms of sexual economics theory, women sexually ''commodify themselves'' with a certain exchange value whenever they sexually reject or accept men based on their resources. | <!--Due to women's dependence on men, women naturally want resource security in relationships much more than men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381730315X</ref>-->In terms of sexual economics theory, women sexually ''commodify themselves'' with a certain exchange value whenever they sexually reject or accept men based on their resources. | ||
Sex then becomes a resource itself that men can ''purchase'' by amassing a broad array of valued goods, including non-monetary resources such as fame and competence.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | Sex then becomes a resource itself that men can ''purchase'' by amassing a broad array of valued goods, including non-monetary resources such as fame and competence.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | ||
Women compete in "selling high" by strategically withholding sex, thereby increasing men's sexual frustration, thus inflating the "price" of sex and baiting men into engaging in more committed resource provision. Women are also believed slut-shame one another to maintain the value of sex, as sex given away for free lowers the value of sex, which reduces women's leverage over men.<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> In this manner, women collude, forming [[pussy cartel|pussy cartels]], and inciting one another's hypergamy. By having men work for them, women become a leisure class. | Women compete in "selling high" by strategically withholding sex, thereby increasing men's sexual frustration, thus inflating the "price" of sex and baiting men into [[toxic masculinity|engaging in more committed/agressive resource provision]], even when there is a surplus of resources in society. Women are also believed slut-shame one another to maintain the value of sex, as sex given away for free lowers the value of sex, which reduces women's leverage over men.<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> In this manner, women collude, forming [[pussy cartel|pussy cartels]], and inciting one another's hypergamy. By having men work for them, women become a leisure class. | ||
===Bodyguard hypothesis=== | ===Bodyguard hypothesis=== | ||