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Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 11:38 am (UTC)Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 11:50 am (UTC)Given that the main battle for the female of the species is finding a partner that will stick around and use resources to raise their children, I guess having someone that might not even fancy your gender is possibly a higher risk proposition than someone that merely goes and impregnates someone else. That's an interesting statistic for me (presuming that the percentages vaguely relate to the benefits of keeping the cheating partner from an evolutionary perspective, which I suspect they will, even if only very vaguely).
I guess it's the fact that the article headline could be re-written to "men less jealous of cheating that doesn't result in raising someone else's kids" is what got me :)
(I'm not saying it's not worth doing, just in case the results are not in line with expectation)
Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 11:58 am (UTC)You could equally well argue (if it had turned out the other way) that men were more willing to put up with partners who were likely to stay with them as they were sexually interested in their gender, but not with a woman who might leave with another one.
A lot of "evolutionary explanations" turn out to be incredibly culturally biased, because they assume that whatever behaviour is true in the researcher's culture is natural.
Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 12:17 pm (UTC)But a man that might get you pregnant then leave you for another man so you have to bring up the child yourself: EVOLUTIONARY LOSE!
Given the gender roles in terms of who can and can't get pregnant there's no way I would have thought it could go the other way (not to say that's not worth testing, but I'd have bet the house on it)
Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 12:18 pm (UTC)Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 12:30 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 12:17 pm (UTC)Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 12:32 pm (UTC)Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 01:30 pm (UTC)Still not saying it's a slam-dunk or anything like, though.
Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
Date: 2011-01-28 01:45 pm (UTC)