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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 [[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. | 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 to 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=== | ||