Promiscuity: Difference between revisions

As females often have much higher [[parental investment]], the males are usually much more promiscuous, because females have to lock down a provider male as they are too invested in raising the offspring to gather resources themselves.

Both males and females, benefit from sexual variety (though females only if a source of resources is secured). When females engage in promiscuity, as human female ancestors may have, it heightens men's concern about [[paternity assurance]] as they would lose their resources when investing in someone else's offspring (from the male gene's perspective). Thus, it motivates males to constrain female sexuality. This constitutes a [[sexual conflict]], opposing female [[whoring]] and engagement in [[pump and dump]] on the one side for increasing sexual variety, and culture limiting sexual variety for females on the other.