Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World by Dario Maestripieri

Author:Dario Maestripieri [Dario Maestripieri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2009-02-11T21:26:00+00:00

What Females Want

In the film What Women Want, the main male character played by Mel Gibson all of a sudden becomes capable of reading women's minds, finally figures out what women want, and gives it to them, thus becoming very popular with the ladies. Unfortunately, reading women's minds is not an option in the real world, and even if it were, I am not sure it would be sufficient to guarantee a man's success. Men would still have to look like Mel Gibson or have his money to be successful. As an alternative to reading women's minds, let's try to figure out what rhesus females want from their males and see if something similar might work for women and men.

One thing rhesus macaques and people have in common is that males are physically larger and stronger than females. Rhesus males also have sharp canine teeth that are almost twice as long as the females'. Human males have a much greater tendency for physical aggression and violence than females. Just look at who commits murders and fights wars in any human society. Males are physically dangerous, and females seem to be aware of that, so one thing females want is protection. They want a male to protect them from other males who might potentially harm them. Since being stronger and more aggressive can also help with defense against larger animals, females also want males to protect them from predators and other dangers. This is the case for rhesus macaques and was probably true for our hominid ancestors as well. Protection from other males and predators is probably the main reason rhesus females allow a few males to be permanent members of their female-bonded groups. Having sex with them is how they keep them around.

Human males don't have just physical strength and aggressiveness, but also political and economic power. Women want some of that too, and all the goodies that go along with it. So a woman must find a powerful man, keep him around longer than the few minutes necessary for one sexual encounter, and get him to invest everything he's got-time, energy, money, power, you name it-in her. The key to all this is social relationships. Social relationships are the vehicle with which females keep males around and obtain their help and their resources. Men need both sex and social relationships, but not necessarily with the same individuals or at the same time. When women have sex just for sex, they are just like men and just as happy to do it outside of relationships. However, when they use sex for business, they can't do it outside of relationships, or else it would just be prostitution, an unsophisticated and dangerous form of business that most women rightly avoid. So, as already mentioned in chapter 3, human females don't establish and maintain a long-term relationship with a male so that they can have sex repeatedly with him; instead, it's the other way around. Females consent to having sex repeatedly with the same male in order to establish and maintain a long-term relationship with him.

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