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Originally Posted by loquitur
And Will, that's interesting but it doesn't answer the question why women reward "bad boy" behavior by supplying the bad boys with sexual favors. I can figure out why bad boy behaviors persist if they are effective - what I don't understand is why many women find that behavior attractive.
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I'm going to make some big assumptions about what you mean by "bad boys".
In order to maximize her offspring's inclusive fitness, a woman may be innately attracted to a male who is also gene centered. Those men who serve their own implicit interests are genetically stronger than those who don't, and as that has become a survival trait, those women who were attracted to such a man had better offspring, making that attraction a survival trait by association.