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{{quote|There should be strong selection on males to control females' reproduction through direct coercive control of females […]. Evolutionary thinkers, whether informed by feminist ideas or not, are not surprised by one of the overwhelming facts of patriarchal cultures, namely that men […] seek to constrain and control the reproductive capacities of women […]. Juvenilization decreases the threat some men may feel when confronted with women; many men are comfortable around women whom they can clearly dominate and are profoundly uncomfortable around women whom they cannot so clearly dominate.<ref>https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub p. 231-240</ref>}} | {{quote|There should be strong selection on males to control females' reproduction through direct coercive control of females […]. Evolutionary thinkers, whether informed by feminist ideas or not, are not surprised by one of the overwhelming facts of patriarchal cultures, namely that men […] seek to constrain and control the reproductive capacities of women […]. Juvenilization decreases the threat some men may feel when confronted with women; many men are comfortable around women whom they can clearly dominate and are profoundly uncomfortable around women whom they cannot so clearly dominate.<ref>https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub p. 231-240</ref>}} | ||
This may explain hebephilia, i.e. the sexual interest in pubescent girls which affects 20% of men or more,<ref>https://www.ipce.info/sites/ipce.info/files/biblio_attachments/every_fifth.pdf</ref> and, as extreme instantiation of these adaptations, it may also explain pedophilia, i.e. the sexual interest in prepubescent girls | This may explain hebephilia, i.e. the sexual interest in pubescent girls which affects 20% of men or more,<ref>https://www.ipce.info/sites/ipce.info/files/biblio_attachments/every_fifth.pdf</ref> and, as extreme instantiation of these adaptations, it may also explain pedophilia, i.e. the sexual interest in prepubescent girls. In fact, children's smooth skin and innocence may act as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus super stimulus] for men's sexual preferences for neoteny. | ||
Men's selection for paternity assurance may even have reduced women's [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output|spatial abilities]] as men would prefer women who are scared of getting lost, rather than ones who are nimble at navigating their ways to different men. It may also explain women's stronger [[homosexuality|same-sex attraction]] as men would have preferred their [[harem]] women to derive additional sexual pleasure from each other rather than from other men.<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=560351713504498712&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 See section "Male Tolerance"</ref> | Men's selection for paternity assurance may even have reduced women's [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output|spatial abilities]] as men would prefer women who are scared of getting lost, rather than ones who are nimble at navigating their ways to different men. It may also explain women's stronger [[homosexuality|same-sex attraction]] as men would have preferred their [[harem]] women to derive additional sexual pleasure from each other rather than from other men.<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=560351713504498712&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 See section "Male Tolerance"</ref> | ||