PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Promiscuity, Ovulation, Casual Sex
15 Mar 2016
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In order for male promiscuity to exist, women must have had to allow men to be promiscuous aka lady stm. The math - if men are doing it, they are doing it with some women ergo if men are, so are women. Cross cultural evidence for extra pair copulation (epc) The costs for females is higher than for males. Risk of disease (females more likely to get sti"s) Daly and wilson - pregnancy without investing mate. Study saying women are more likely to kill their infants when they don"t have an investing mate (basically saying another cost for stm) Risk of abuse by lt mate and/or st mate and/or family. Use of st mating to achieve lt goals. Use of st mating to improve quality of offspring. I"ll sleep with you if you give me something. Could be single, or mated: resource accrual hypothesis, paternity confusion hypothesis.
