Sexual Behavior
See also: Sexual desire#Sex differences in sexual desire, Physical attractiveness, Sexual selection, Sexual conflict, Bateman's principle, Concealed ovulation, Sperm competition, and Sexual jealousy in humansThe Sexual Strategies Theory by David Buss and David P. Schmitt is a comprehensive evolutionary psychology theory regarding female and male short-term and long-term mating strategies which are argued to be dependent on several different goals and vary depending on the environment. Men and women are predicted to have both similar and different strategies depending on the circumstances. The theory included many predictions that could be empirically tested. The theory is argued to have received extensive empirical support in subsequent research. It has also been developed further. Terri D. Conley et al. has argued that other empirical evidence support smaller or non-existing gender differences and social theories such as stigma, socialization, and double standards.
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