Looks matter - in the short term.

[Vice]

After reading Sperm Wars by Robin Baker, I've made an important realization about looks.

They do matter. In the short term.

When a woman is in her peak fertility, she will be most attracted to men who have high fitness indicators, that includes looks, agression, ambition, etc. She will mate with this male in the SHORT TERM.

However, in the LONG TERM, she will prefer a more stable male, one that can provide for her and her children. Looks don't matter - as much.

This is one of the factors that lead to infidelity. The woman will settle down with a stable guy and have two kids, and then have a third one covertley with one of these short term males. The night or following days that she is impregnated by the short term male, she will make sure that her long term mate impregnates her as well, to fool him into thinking that it is his child. This is done by many other animals as well.

Statistics show that nearly one out of every ten people in this world have a different father than they think they do.

So here it is, another puzzle piece to the whole "looks" thing. Backed up by science and sh*t. Robin Baker has some excellent work.

 

[Iceberg]

Statistics show that nearly one out of every ten people in this world have a different father than they think they do.

So here it is, another puzzle piece to the whole "looks" thing. Backed up by science and sh*t. Robin Baker has some excellent work.

Meh.

I wouldn't call it science. Statistics can show anything you want them to, depending on what you're trying to say, and who is paying you to say it.

 

[Tiguere]

Originally Posted by Rollo Tomassi

Cheating

For this dynamic and the practicality of enjoying
the best of both genetic worlds, women find it
necessary to 'cheat'. This cheating can be done
proactively or reactively.

In the reactive model , a woman who has
already paired with her long term partner
choice, engages in an extramarital or extra-
pairing, sexual intercourse with a short term
partner (i.e . the cheating wife or girlfriend).
That's not to say this short term opportunity
cannot develop into a 2 nd, long term mate , but
the action itself is a method for securing better
genetic stock than the committed male provider
is capable of supplying.


Proactive cheating is the single Mommy
dillema. This form of 'cheating' relies on the
woman breeding with a Good Genes male,
bearing his children and then abandoning him ,
or having him abandon her , (again through
invented social conventions) in order to find a
Good Dad male to provide for her and the
children of her Good Genes partner to ensure
their security.


I want to stress again that (most) women do not
have some consciously recognized, master plan
to enact this cycle and deliberately trap men
into it . Rather the motivations for this behavior
and the accompanying rationales invented to
justify it are an unconscious process. I fervently
believe that for the most part, women are
unaware of this dynamic, but are nonetheless
subject to it's influence. For a female of any
species to facilitate a methodology for
breeding with the best genetic partner she's
able to attract AND to ensure her own and
her offspring 's survival with the best
provisioning partner; this is an evolutionary
jackpot .i

 

[Vice]

Looks like Rollo beat me to it.

Three years ago.

Here's the link to the original thread, in case anyone is interested in reading further. I know I sure am.

http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?t=145693

At least I'm learning this now.

 

[Chamber36]

yo this explains how I lost my virginity.
Looks like she acted in the Reactive model. I remember after we had sex she claimed she had to admit it to her BF. Was a pretty ****ed up experience for me.

 

[aura]

It explains a lot.