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[[File:1902_Liebermann_Simson_und_Delia_anagoria.JPG|thumb|right|Max Liebermann | [[File:1902_Liebermann_Simson_und_Delia_anagoria.JPG|thumb|right|Max Liebermann, ''Simson und Delia'' (1902)]] | ||
[[File:Salome_Jean_Benner_c1899.jpg|thumb|right|Jean Benner: Salome (ca. 1899)]] | [[File:Salome_Jean_Benner_c1899.jpg|thumb|right|Jean Benner: Salome (ca. 1899)]] | ||
[[File:Franz-Von-Stuck-adam-and-Eve.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Von Stuck: Adam and Eve (ca. 1920)]] | [[File:Franz-Von-Stuck-adam-and-Eve.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Von Stuck: Adam and Eve (ca. 1920)]] | ||
'''Sexual conflict''' refers to diverging interests in males and females to optimize their fitness or the sexiness of the offspring over many generations, increasing the average fitness of one's own sex at the cost of the average fitness of the other sex. The sexes of many species literally engage in a war over the course of evolution.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMCtE2-YsLc</ref> | '''Sexual conflict''' refers to diverging interests in [[males]] and [[females]] to optimize their [[fitness]] or the [[Beauty|sexiness]] of the offspring over many generations, increasing the average fitness of one's own sex at the cost of the average fitness of the other sex. The sexes of many species literally engage in a war over the course of evolution.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMCtE2-YsLc</ref> | ||
== Examples of sexual conflict in humans == | == Examples of sexual conflict in humans == | ||
* From the point of view of women, fitness is optimized if the mate cares for the young thus freeing resources (e.g., time and energy) that can be invested in additional offspring, but caring for a single woman, the man needs to forego other mating opportunities. | * From the point of view of women, fitness is optimized if the mate cares for the young thus freeing resources (e.g., time and energy) that can be invested in additional offspring, but caring for a single woman, the man needs to forego other mating opportunities. | ||
* Men seek extra-pair copulations (affairs) because they can scatter their seeds, but this is at odds with women fitness as they depend on men's resources, hence women seek men who invest in them by attracting them with a reputation of faithfulness and looks, and by conservatively rewarding romance and other signals of investment by some controlled amount of affection. Only in case of very good looking men, women's desire for investment is offset by the promise for the genes for good looking offspring ([[sexy sons hypothesis]]). | * Men seek extra-pair copulations (affairs) because they can scatter their seeds, but this is at odds with women fitness as they depend on men's resources, hence women seek men who invest in them by attracting them with a reputation of faithfulness and looks, and by conservatively rewarding romance and other signals of investment by some controlled amount of affection. Only in case of very good looking men, women's desire for investment is offset by the promise for the genes for good looking offspring ([[sexy sons hypothesis]]). | ||
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* As mentioned in the [[slut]] article, women generally tend to benefit from chaos in their sexual strategy as it promises new hope of securing a better partner. Men, on the other hand benefit from order because chaos means they have to compete again for reproductive opportunities and heavily invest in [[courtship]] display again. | * As mentioned in the [[slut]] article, women generally tend to benefit from chaos in their sexual strategy as it promises new hope of securing a better partner. Men, on the other hand benefit from order because chaos means they have to compete again for reproductive opportunities and heavily invest in [[courtship]] display again. | ||
* The [[feminine imperative]] is a collection of adaptations that emerged from women to maximizing their fitness, often at the cost of men's fitness, e.g. single mothers who are single because they got [[pump and dump|pumped and dumped]] by [[Chad]], demanding to be cared for by tax money, thereby decreasing men's accumulation of wealth which men need to impress women, and thereby decrease men's fitness. | * The [[feminine imperative]] is a collection of adaptations that emerged from women to maximizing their fitness, often at the cost of men's fitness, e.g. single mothers who are single because they got [[pump and dump|pumped and dumped]] by [[Chad]], demanding to be cared for by tax money, thereby decreasing men's accumulation of wealth which men need to impress women, and thereby decrease men's fitness. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Fisherian runaway]] | * [[Fisherian runaway]] | ||
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* [[Sexual selection]] | * [[Sexual selection]] | ||
* [[Slut]] | * [[Slut]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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