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Even though women's sexual strategy is often purported to be slower, this really only seems to apply to their more coy, passive and choosy sex drive and much more limited reproductive rate. In truth, women lose interest in long-term romantic investment a lot sooner than men[1] and yield nearly the same rate of affairs.[2] In fact, biochemical research points to a natural four-year sexual cycle for the human female. A woman’s natural tendency is to “liberate” herself from her mate after that point.[3] This is in line with divorce statistics where women are the initiator 75% of the time.[3] Moreover, women mature sooner than men,[4] which is a fast LH trait. This, however, may simply be a result of men selecting for neoteny for paternity assurance.
So, even though women's life history speed is slower in terms of reproductive rate and choosiness, their long-term strategy seems to be actually less r-selected than men's, implying less long-term investment in the offspring and hence less compatible with modern, highly ordered and structured civilization.
This may stem from the fact that women have overall been less subject to selective pressures as they reproduced twice as often as men. For this reason, women's sexuality may be stuck in a more r-selected past. Women's tendency to switch mates has also been explained by the mate switching hypothesis[5] as a means to ensure a suitable provider and protector all the time, which women are thought to depend on by bodyguard hypothesis. Another explanation could be that modern requirements are simply a an evolutionary mismatch that only emerges when women are economically independent and liberated such that their hypergamy, choosiness and fickleness becomes more exposed.
@Hozay @Idfkbruh
So, even though women's life history speed is slower in terms of reproductive rate and choosiness, their long-term strategy seems to be actually less r-selected than men's, implying less long-term investment in the offspring and hence less compatible with modern, highly ordered and structured civilization.
This may stem from the fact that women have overall been less subject to selective pressures as they reproduced twice as often as men. For this reason, women's sexuality may be stuck in a more r-selected past. Women's tendency to switch mates has also been explained by the mate switching hypothesis[5] as a means to ensure a suitable provider and protector all the time, which women are thought to depend on by bodyguard hypothesis. Another explanation could be that modern requirements are simply a an evolutionary mismatch that only emerges when women are economically independent and liberated such that their hypergamy, choosiness and fickleness becomes more exposed.
@Hozay @Idfkbruh