Female Criteria 35

Social Basis of Human Behavior: Sex
By Taflinger

Female Criteria

The human female runs into a real problem: the human mind. Remember that females must apply more criteria to select a male than males apply to a female. It is not the nearest possibility, but the best possibility that she desir es. (Ehrlichman & Eichenstein, 1992) A woman's mind allows her, and indeed forces her to examine possible criteria to a much greater extent than any other animal. She can also project the consequences of choices into the future. What constitutes an alpha male, the best male with which to mate and produce the best possible offspring, depends on far more factors than any other animal on earth.

The criteria for her to desire sexually a man can include strength or health or fighting ability, like the lion or the wolf. However, they include intelligence, money, power, prestige, position, status, attitudes, political or religious convictions, any number and combination of factors. It's whatever she believes a man should be that will result in

1) the best possible genes for her offspring, and

2) the offspring's best chance for survival and ability to pass on its genes.

It is the human mind that allows her to consider the possibilities, the criteria, the future outcome of her actions.

She does not go into heat and mate with the closest best bet. She makes plans, examines her choices, makes conscious decisions. Only the human female can make conscious, planned decisions about her sex life.

Women's ability to think consciously about their sexual lives does not mean she doesn't have instinctive desires as strong as a man's. What it does mean is she will often subordinate that desire: primarily she will desire a physically attractive man, but she will not actually have sex with him until he has satisfied more than physical criteria.