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== Expensiveness of courtship ==
== Expensiveness of courtship ==


By withholding sex, women can exploit men's sexual frustration to get more investment, commitment, and more expensive (e.g. [[romance|romantic]]) courtship display, such as gifting an expensive ring, organizing an expensive wedding or relinquishing other enterprise in favor of spending time with the woman. The more the man invests in a woman, the more valuable she will appear,<ref name="ethology"></ref> as a result of the sunk cost fallacy.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpnxd31y0Fo</ref> By playing coy, downplaying their attraction and deferring sex, women can hence trick men into more commitment and reliable resource provision.
By withholding sex, women can exploit men's sexual frustration to get more investment, commitment, and more expensive (e.g. [[romance|romantic]]) courtship display, such as gifting an expensive ring, organizing an expensive wedding or relinquishing other enterprises in favor of spending time with the woman. The more the man invests in a woman, the more valuable she will appear,<ref name="ethology"></ref> as a result of the sunk cost fallacy.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpnxd31y0Fo</ref> By playing coy, downplaying their attraction and deferring sex, women can hence trick men into more commitment and reliable resource provision.


== Ornament ==
== Ornament ==
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