Why 'but'? This can be true & beneficial as well as mate guarding. Church narrative all abt female promiscuity.
No, I don't think so. They had this perception. Men more cerebral. Women more sensual. Eve proved it.
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structured societies, as any promiscuity by a daughter could make her unmarryable, and marriage was really important.
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But why? Because of biological fitness. Wanting to put resources into ones offspring.
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having a daughter make a good marriage can help the whole family, and thus benefits her siblings too.
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Yes.Not sure where you're going w/ this? Do u disagree that evo-psych underlies it or that Xtian writing says women over-sexed?
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focus on 'oversexed women' comes, I think, from 'daughter-guarding' see what I mean?
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Mate guarding predates diversification of the primates to protect male biological fitness. Various cultural things inc marriage
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come from this drive of men to raise their own offspring & of women to have theirs provided for.
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most of the violence is still between men and is much more serious, but theres a worry about "the goods getting damaged"
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I think we see echoes of the same thing in moral panics about increased girl-on-girl violence. It's nonsense becos...
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'overestimating' female availabty. What I'm saying is that I think the marriagablity of women is the dominant factor in
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yes, but it is driven by the 'sale value' of women in marriage. Same was what YeyoZa is saying about mate-guarding and..
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