“X” and the Single Girl: Of Parental Investment,Reproductive Strategies,and the Overly Cautious Female

Abstract

Female mammals are more cautious in their selection of mates than are males. These differing reproductive strategies are a function of their differing degrees of parental investment. It is reasonable to predict that variations in deviant and unfit strategies would differ between the sexes. That males are much more likely than females to utilize “unfit” sexual outlets is well known. Kinsey, et al. (1953) reported that the incidence of human females incapable of erotic arousal is much larger than that of males. That this “unfit” deviation is more common in females is consistent with their cautious reproductive strategy.