Men's Short Term Mating Preferences

Question 1

What are the costs of ST mating?

Answer 1

Low-quality mates, reputation loss for LT dating in the future, STD/STI, no shared resources, lack of parental investment, violence (cheating), revenge cheating by the mate, few chances to impregnate

Question 2

What are the benefits of ST mating?

Answer 2

More offspring creation potential, genetic variety

Question 3

Who is more likely to have extramarital affairs?

Answer 3

Men

Question 4

Who is more likely to use prostitutes?

Answer 4

Men

Question 5

What percent of men have used prostitutes and what percent use them regularly?

Answer 5

70% and 15%

Question 6

What may be the main restrictor of men having ST mates?

Answer 6

Social bias/pressures

Question 7

What must men do to gain access to a variety of partners?

Answer 7

Lower their standards and be lustier

Question 8

What standards do men lower in order to ST mate?

Answer 8

Age, personality, promiscuity

Question 9

What age range do men want for LT and ST mating?

Answer 9

17-25, 16-28

Question 10

When are women dressed in slutty clothing deemed to be more attractive?

Answer 10

When the man is looking for a ST mate

Question 11

What is the closing time phenomenon?

Answer 11

When the bar is getting closer to closing, men will rate the same woman as being more attractive than he previously rated her

Question 12

Who is more likely to take on a ST mating strategy or use it as their only strategy?

Answer 12

Men

Question 13

Who is more likely to be sociosexually unrestricted?

Answer 13

Men

Question 14

How many partners do men and women want in their lifetime?

Answer 14

18 and 5-6 respectively

Question 15

What nationality wants fewer sex partners overall? Why?

Answer 15

Africans, the threat of HIV/AIDS

Question 16

How soon will men and women consent to have sex?

Answer 16

1 day and 6 months respectively

Question 17

What nationality of men is unlikely to consent to have sex before one month?

Answer 17

African men

Question 18

What nationality of women is likely to consent to have sex before one month?

Answer 18

Western Europeans

Question 19

What were the results when men and women were asked by a total stranger for a date, to come back to their apartment or to have sex with them?

Answer 19

Men = women for saying yes to a date, men > women for going to apartment/having sex

Question 20

What does perceived attractiveness have to do with the likelihood of ST mating?

Answer 20

Men who perceive themselves to be more attractive are more likely to ST mate

Question 21

What is the attraction-reduction effect? What does this help with?

Answer 21

Men who ST mate find their partner less attractive once they have had sex with her, it helps him avoid commitment

Question 22

What is the adaptive function of regret?

Answer 22

It improves our future decision making

Question 23

What types of sexual acts do men regret?

Answer 23

Acts of omission (not doing something they should have done)

Question 24

What type of sexual acts do women regret?

Answer 24

Acts of commission (doing something they should not have done)

Question 25

How do men improve their chances of getting the women pregnant on the first try?

Answer 25

They look for fertility cues, sperm competition

Question 26

What is the relationship between teste size and promiscuity of animals? Why is this relevant?

Answer 26

More promiscuous animals have larger teste size, they produce more sperm in each ejaculate and therefore are more likely to get the female pregnant on the first try

Question 27

What does large teste size correlate with in humans?

Answer 27

Increased masculinity, increased sperm production, increased the likelihood to take on ST mating

Question 28

Why may more masculine men be more likely to engage in ST mating?

Answer 28

They are more successful at it and know this