[vannrox]

I found this very interesting.

[weikel]

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[Izzy Dunne]

women are more likely to express an interest in going out with a man if they are told that other women also find him attractive.

The old rule: if you don't have a girlfriend, it's hard to get one - if you do, they're all over you.

[Hodar]

Attractiveness may be the case in animals. But in humans, it's largely a decision made as follows:

A female will date the wealthiest man, her figure/face can attract
A male will date the most attractive female he can attract, with the income he has.

Income, not personality, looks, or charisma is the key determing factor. Can anyone name 1 super-model who is dating/married to an attractive busdriver, frycook, or other lower-wage earning male. If exceptions exist, the exception makes the rule.

[Waco]

But, smoke cigars and yer out. Or: Good defense strad.

[Consort]

Men have to share the blame when women choose the wrong men. We just stand by without saying anything when women we know choose the worse guy possible and the right guy is just down the hall and we know who he is. It happens every day.

[uncbob]

Well with the divorce rate in this country seems neither sex is making the right choices

[meadsjn]

Some species go extinct, perhaps because of those female choices. Humans might be next to go.

[eric_da_grate]

Nothing really new here.

The parallels between mating habits in species on this planet are well documented.

Sometimes, you'll watch some nature show on PBS and see the similarities in ritual courtship, same as humans....The males showing off, posing, flirting and even fighting each other to impress the females.

As for human females being more "choosey", that's common knowledge, but their motivations in this contemporary culture are usually just as superficial and shallow as a man's notion of an "ideal mate."

I don't fault a woman for wanting to attach herself to the first man who can provide her with the greatest degree of comfort and security....I think that's instinctive, but to suggest that her "discriminatory process" of choosing a mate is on a different plane from a man's similar self-centered ambitions is pure bunk.

There's not a woman alive who'd pass up on a coniving, manipulative, millionaire husband for a caring, sensitive, "regular Joe" type guy....Don't even go there.

[No!]

"female three-spined sticklebacks:

I dated one of those in College, I remember...

This is ALL nonsense!

[MissAmericanPie]

Throw in the powerful sports car, and you have a nearly irresistible combination.

Verrrrrroooooommmm

[Inspectorette]

Hmmm...this is interesting, I don't know whether I buy it, though.

Mr. Inspectorette is an identical twin. It just so happened that I met his brother before I met him, and thought he was a rather nice-looking man, but that was it. No interest whatsoever. However, when I met Mr. Inspectorette a couple of months later, the minute I laid eyes on him my little heart just went pitter-pat, and I knew I'd follow him anywhere. And I still would.

[otterpond]

There is n secret here. Women (smart women, that is) choose mew who are smart, funny, self-confident, and, preferrably, powerful. Of course, powerful is relative.

Smart men choose women for the same reasons.

[Mr. Jeeves]

So we men all need to start dressing like pimps on a 70's TV show? "Red nuptial coloring" notwithstanding, I remember most of those guys wore either purple or leopard-skin...which is best, ladies? LOL!

[wimpycat]

A choosy female faces two general tasks in selecting a mate. First, she must search for and locate a male. This task can be difficult if the population is sparse or if the danger of predators prevents her from spending a good deal of time searching for a suitable mate. Once she has encountered a male, the female must then decide whether to accept or reject him as a mate. The decision often involves some shopping around.

So this is where the shopping instinct comes from.

[Jonx6]

Seems that many pregnancies are assisted by alcohol and that would mean that the offspring would lean toward imbibing as well. That would explain a lot.

[mlmr]

So back in the seventies and eighties when I was running around in my red souped up MGB, top down and auburn hair gleaming in the sun, the men were not attracted??

Then why was it that I never could drive through a new town without the law pulling me over???

[El Gato]

female green tree frogs (Hyla cinerea) are preferentially attracted to males that call the loudest and most frequently

Thus explaining Monica, and others.

[Rudder]

First, the article states:

"Females tend to be the choosier sex when it comes to selecting a mate, partly because males can produce millions of sperm, whereas females' eggs are few and far between."

Then, later, it states:

"...the question of why females discriminate, rather than mate at random, remains largely unresolved."

They could've used a good editor, and the first statement borders on the riculous. How many females go around keeping track of their eggs and selecting partners in manner so they don't squander them? The answer is none. "Why" questions are hard to deal with by science and good scientists should know better than to infer cause and effect, when it's not known, by such circular reasoning.

[Jonx6]

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[Revolting cat!]

But then if you dare to take one step beyond the obvious and the already stated, all this can serve as a reasonable explanation for the existence of prostitution and pornography, can it not? Ah, the females' little mating games!