This always was, and is, the natural order: Women want serial monogamy. She wants the highest-value man she can get, all to herself, until a better man wants her. Men want polygyny. He wants to collect as many high-value women that desire him, and will follow him, as he can.
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who people have sex with is a very different subject when the sex isn't procreative, probably the 'you are married to this woman and you think the kid is yours but it isn't' rate is probably not that far from historical norms.
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Exactly that. Women have behaviors that result in low incidence of reproduction unless some man forces her to stop. This doesn't show up in false paternity but it does show up in other sources of data.
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Actually meant to say "polyandrous" above but women modern women are both polyandrous and polygynous - shared by men with whom they're not exclusive.
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Any simplistic narrarive has to also explain: 1) General cohort trends of decreased sex and increased sexlessness 2) The same trends among pre-college teens 3) Similar (or larger depending on survey) effects among women https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z …pic.twitter.com/WiLX5iWPa2
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Polygyny is a minority strategy among women. Female promiscuity (including desired) follows a power law (Pareto) distribution. Women voluntarily joining harems around rich/famous men represent no more than 20%. The rest are essentially monogamous (a good half are entirely so)
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