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Unrestricted women's sexuality or opportunism? Quasi-mathematical asides on Gangestad and Simpson's strategic female pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Jim McKnight  and
Nigel Bond
Jim McKnight
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, PO Box 555, Campbelltown, [email protected]
Nigel Bond
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, PO Box 555, Campbelltown, [email protected]
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Abstract

Women's mating strategies have typically been characterised as restrictive or coy. However, recent research on sociosexual behaviour suggests that the frequency of women's extra-pair copulations is a function of an unrestricted personality. While agreeing with the general thrust of Gangestad & Simpson's strategic pluralism theory we suggest that it is more likely a matter of finely calculated reproductive opportunism.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 612 - 613
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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