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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 | 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 == |