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evol. psy. Ch6 P.174
ch 6 p 174-8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| males could not have selected for promiscuity | if women had always denied them the opportunity |
| men accept more sexual offers from | attractive than non attractive women |
| women accept more sexual offers from men who are | high in socioeconomic status and attractiveness if context involves intimacy rather than just pure sex |
| reproductive benefits for male short-term mating | an increase in the number of offspring produced |
| short-term sexual strategy costs | STDs, womanizer reputation, lowering child survival rate, violence at woman's relative's hands, risking retaliatory wife affairs |
| beneficial function of short-term mating | recurrent selection pressure, costs less than benefits, favored the evolution of psychological mechanisms |
| inferring evolution of psychological mechanisms | in all cultures?, specific contexts?, contexts existed in EEA?, potential benefit likely? |
| short-term mating adaptations | desire for variety of sex partners, relaxation of standards for short-term mates |
| sexual accessibility adaptations | avoid conservative, prudish, sexually inexperienced, (clothes suggest sexual accessibility) |
| identify female fertility | fertility vs reproductive value |
| avoiding commitment | shun women demanding commitments or investments |
| large testes typically evolve as a consequence of | intense sperm competition due to copulation of two or more males at the same time |
| human ancestors rarely reached the relative indiscriminate sex | of the chimpanzee and bonobos, but more than the monogamous gorillas |
| men's sperm count went up dramatically with | the increasing amount of time they had been apart since their last sexual encounter displacing any interloper's sperm |
| psychological evidence for short-term mating | sexual variety, seeks sexual intercourse, lowering standards, sexual fantasies, "closing time phenomena" change |
| function of lust | motivate sexual intercourse; desire for more than one sex partner over next month greater for men worldwide |
| increased gender equality | has not decreased male/female lust difference |
| men desire sex with new potential mate | sooner than women |
| men will consent to sex | sooner after meeting than women will |
| women displaying cues to easy sexual access | judged by men to be more desirable only in terms of short-term mating |
| male college student age range for casual sex | wider than college females |
| males require lower standards of | charm, athleticism, education, generosity, honesty, independence, kindness, loyalty, humour, wealth ... for brief encounters |
| male short-term sexual preferences | hot body (fertility), promiscuous, high sex drive and sex experience (accessibility) |
| women tend to prioritize face | in both long and short-term partners |
| attraction-reduction effect | men with more sex partners experience decline in partner attractiveness right after intercourse |
| neither men or women with less sexual experience | find attractiveness declines just after sex |
| male success of a casual sexual strategy, hastening postcopulatory departure | serves to minimize investment in one woman and short-term partners |
| closing time phenomenon | as closing time approached men viewed women (and visa versa) as increasingly attractive independent of alcohol consumption |
| "beer goggles" phenomena may be attributable to | women are viewed to be more attractive with sensitivity to decreasing casual sex opportunities |
| men have roughly twice as many | sexual fantasies as women |
| men's sexual fantasies more often include | strangers, multiple or anonymous partners and group sex and may change partners in same fantasy (numbers and novelty) |
| male fantasies | sheer lust and physical gratification attuned to sexual access to a variety of partners (lack plot, emotional elaboration) |
| women's fantasies | contain familiar partners, emotions, personality |
| males' sex drives are | stronger than females' with higher pornography masturbation consumption for gender equal and patriarchal nations |
| men have higher sexual | omission regret than women |
| women regretted | sexual commission more than men |
| men reported terrible feelings after hooking up | women wanted a relationship, over-consumption of alcohol or drugs (facilitate avoiding entangling commitments) |
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