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'''Shyness''', under the label of, '''social anxiety disorder''', has been built up as an “unhealthy”, or “suspicious”, state of mind for people living in modern Western societies. In that it’s behavioral, “symptoms”, suggest a failure to achieve a non-universal set of racial or culturally based values, such as chattiness, individual expression, and assertiveness. Shyness is more and more defined as a problem for which people can, and should, be treated, usually with [[psychiatry|drugging]]. | '''Shyness''', under the label of, '''social anxiety disorder''', has been built up as an “unhealthy”, or “suspicious”, state of mind for people living in modern Western societies. In that it’s behavioral, “symptoms”, suggest a failure to achieve a non-universal set of racial or culturally based values, such as chattiness, individual expression, and assertiveness. Shyness is more and more defined as a problem for which people can, and should, be treated, usually with [[psychiatry|drugging]]. | ||
Shyness in sexual matters is a [[life history|slow life history]] trait in that it involves careful mate choices and high investment in the offspring and extroversion is linked to higher sexual frequency.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886918306159</ref> Even though adaptations for modest behavior are valuable for modern society, sexual liberation favors the [[hybristophilia|exact opposite]] in sexual behavior. | Shyness in sexual matters is a [[life history|slow life history]] trait in that it involves careful mate choices and high investment in the offspring and extroversion is linked to higher sexual frequency.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886918306159</ref> Even though adaptations for modest behavior are valuable for modern society, sexual liberation favors the [[hybristophilia|exact opposite]] in sexual behavior. Love-shyness may be the result of an [[evolutionary mismatch]] due to modern society abandoning [[arranged marriage]] traditions which were highly prevalent in human history and promoting free mate choice instead. | ||
==Female shyness 'cute', but male shyness 'bad'== | ==Female shyness 'cute', but male shyness 'bad'== | ||