Happy Hotties: Reproductive capital linked to happiness

Happy New Year Alpha-Acolytes.  After an extended Holiday break I am back in the saddle in Seattle.  I trust you all had as wild and exciting new year as I spent with family in the frozen midwest city of Minneapolis, aka little Somalia.  Traveler’s tip: There is a treasure trove of exotic girls of East [...]

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Shaving, Circumcision and Other Sexual Preferences; an Informal Poll

In the commentary on my last post, the question of whether to circumcise came up and it got me thinking.  Obviously this is a personal choice with a strong religious tradition.  The US and Canada are the only two countries which routinely practice circumcision without a religious basis.  In the past health and hygiene reasons [...]

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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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Man or Mouse

A study on mice found that inhibition of nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter, led to increased aggression, often fatal between males.  Another effect was persistent sexual advances even where females were not receptive.  It seems that both of these behaviors are linked: Johns Hopkins University scientists have discovered a genetic basis for violent and excessive sexual [...]

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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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Quants get no Love

Women always claim that intelligence is a turnon right?  Yet like with most things women say you have to read between the lines.  Women really want someone who is their intellectual equal, and given population IQ distributions this really just means someone of average intelligence; not a blithering idiot.  More importantly, they want a masculine [...]

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What the Hell is Wrong with the Willing Beta?

I stumbled across this site and was stricken with a near-mortal case of the dry-heaves.  This utterly confounds me as it is a complete perversion of the natural order of things.  I can only surmise that this submissive male phenomenon has grown out of the rampant incidence of single-motherhood afflicting the nation. According to the [...]

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Did you marry your Mother?

I have often wondered at the dating choices people make.  I’ve known a number of men who introduce me to their new girlfriend and all I can think upon meeting her is “Dude, you can do better.”  Women too often choose astoundingly low-quality matches as evidenced by the women who date one abusive man after [...]

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Beautiful People have more Daughters

In a recent posting the subject of sexual conflict came up, which is in essence the propagation of antagonistic goals by one of the sexes’ gametes at the expense of the other.  This can set up sexual biases in certain lineage’s offspring.  Sexual bias need not always be antagonistic however, sometimes both genders are served [...]

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