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A variant of a polygynous system is that few people are married, one is expected to be faithful while married, but unmarried individuals are free to have sex with multiple unmarried partners, and only a minority of well-off men get to have multiple wives. In this system, most men and most women get a shot at reproduction and no sex has a large number of individuals that face death without reproduction. So no especially strong sexual selection here. Now what happens in Northern Europe? Men die disproportionately while hunting big game. So the surviving men are being selected for masculinization. There is an excess of women. The women are forced to be less restrictive with their sexuality because an interested but rejected man will simply move onto another woman. The men are not especially motivated to restrict the sexual opportunities available to women because there are so many of them. The only advantage of restricting women’s sexuality for men is increasing the certainty that who they think are their biological children are indeed so, but this comes at the great cost of undermining one’s sexual pleasure. Diminishing one’s sexual pleasure by restricting women’s sexuality when there are plenty of women around doesn’t make any sense, and no red-blooded man would be so inclined. So the women have full partner selection choice, even though limited, but no matter how limited the choice, women will be more selective than men in a comparable situation. They simply have to, given their limited childbirth capacity. This is a crucial point. Even with a shortage of men, women will still be significantly selective, and the men are of course being selective because there are so many women to choose from, and the men are typically not in a position to support multiple wives. https://its.fh-campuswien.ac.at/hackmd/s/JnqeNil1t https://hackmd.iscpif.fr/s/rkrmhM1oxg https://hackmd.diverse-team.fr/s/rydHg-740 https://md.ccc-mannheim.de/s/SJySFt09lx http://tacheles.humanistika.org/s/rJlpebt0eg https://hackmd.astamuse.net/s/SJvV8w5ngl https://hackmd.stuve-bamberg.de/s/x-bffabI0 https://docs.snowdrift.coop/s/6vwMFFiPc https://hedgedoc.catgirl.cloud/s/I34Ez6Gd5 https://hackmd.bangumi.org/s/rkx7HZJehxl https://pad.demokratie-dialog.de/s/oVGf7S7L11 https://hackmd.stuve-bamberg.de/s/hRZ-myP9C https://craigslist-personals.eurolines.nl/ https://craigslist-personals.mijnstartonline.nl/ https://craigslist-personals.rosadoc.be/ https://craigslist-personals.de-vitrine.be/ https://craigslist-personals.velelinkjes.nl/ https://craigslist-personals.maakjestart.nl/ https://craigslist-personals.gratislinken.nl/ https://craigslist-personals.backlinkplaatsen.nl/