by Warren Perkin. Since the 1950s, the wealthy and powerful have sought to make acquaintance of Ms Patterning, with the ulterior motive of using her in fulfilling their goals. She finds herself overjoyed that her own mission in life, to end the domestic drudgery of her fellow females, has finally caught the attention of the […]

by Rob Brooks. Psychologists Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs argued that women, in higher demand as mates than men, have greater power over whether a given mating takes place. As a result of that power, heterosexual sex is largely a female-controlled resource. … Why do many conservatives like a high price of sex? It suits […]

Surprising insights from the new field of sexual economics. by Noam Shpancer Ph.D.. Baumeister’s analysis of the sexual marketplace, then, assumes that sex is not just a private matter but a part of the socio-economic system [Society December 2012, Volume 49, Issue 6 ] … In general, it pays for women to operate as a […]

Roy F. Baumeister, Jean M. Twenge. Review of General Psychology 2002, Vol. 6, No. 2, 166–203. Instead, the evidence favors the view that women have worked to stifle each other’s sexuality because sex is a limited resource that women use to negotiate with men, and scarcity gives women an advantage. Sherfey (1966) proposed that the […]