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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. | 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. | ||
Female promiscuity is also referred to as [[cock carousel]]. | |||
== Human female promiscuity and sperm competition == | == Human female promiscuity and sperm competition == | ||