Go Get ‘em Tiger

  I’m sure nobody has missed the brouhaha surrounding Tiger Woods’ alleged infidelity.  Not being a celebrity fanboy sycophant, I generally despise the celebrity worship Americans insist on engaging in and all the rabid gasping and moralizing when one of them is suddenly revealed as a mere mortal like the rest of us.  Unfortunately unless [...]

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About Face

Effeminate hipsters take note.  You are quite possibly more desirable relationship partners than the alpha dogs.  Lest you lose yourselves in runaway celebration however this isn’t the coup you may think it would be.

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Women’s desire is inversely proportional to their sense of security in a relationship

Every time I post about men wanting more sex in a relationship, some self-proclaimed exception to the rule has to chime in about how her husband won’t do her to a tender turn.  There is truth to the claim that the number one complaint men have is not getting enough sex from their wives however.  [...]

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Further evidence that fertile women are on the make

I’ve pointed this fact out before but it bears reiteration.  Women at the peak of their fertility are the most likely group to be attracted to Alpha males for short-term encounters.  They identify them by their scent and secondary sexual characteristics that demonstrate high testosterone levels. In times past, prior to electric light and hormonal [...]

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Are the Beautiful Smarter? Assortive Mating and Fecundity

Beauty is highly prized by humans, particularly in prospective mates.  This is because beauty is believed to be a proxy for reproductive fitness and genetic strength.  Despite many unctuous diatribes by those who would have us see more than skin deep, people continue to sort themselves for procreative purposes in accordance with their attractiveness, both [...]

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Dirty Birdies: Bird biology shows why offspring need both parents.

Research on birds and other animals that pair for rearing offspring has suggested that the battle of the sexes may be the glue that hold parents together in raising offspring.  While one parent may pick up some of the slack for an absent or lazy parent, they don’t fully compensate for the lack.  This may [...]

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Men Live for Dangerous Curves

It’s well known that men are attracted to an hourglass shape in women, yet with obesity rampant and rising in America, such exemplary specimens are becoming more difficult to find.  Size inflation has become a national pastime.  In the popular media, we continually hear how men should overcome their nature and give “real women” meaning [...]

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Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave Many Offspring: The Net Effect of High Testosterone is Reproductive Success

A rhetorical question with the evidence to back up the answer: Does being an Alpha male pay off in the long run?  Not surprisingly, the answer is “duh.”  Alpha males are known for being a macho men, and this is the result of greater circulating testosterone levels and its consequent secondary sexual characteristics that define [...]

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Don’t Hate a Player, If You Want Sex, Be an Alpha

Several months ago I posed this question to the female readers.  I did so to illustrate the fact that women often act counter to their own interests in the interest of maintaining their denial of their own biological imperatives.  As we learned in my post on hypergamy, and others, women have a basic reproductive strategy, [...]

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Metabolic Imprinting and the Obesity Epidemic

It’s no secret: residents of developed nations are getting mightily fat.  I notice this more with every passing day it seems.  It used to be presumed that people would put on weight with age.  This age-related weight gain was considered normal, although health experts and nutritionists know that this doesn’t have to be the case.  [...]

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