Baumeister, the primary coauthor behind the seminal 2004 paper titled “Sexual Economics: Sex as Female Resource for Social Exchange in Heterosexual Interactions”, has released online the latest addition to that work, titled “Sexual Economics, Culture, Men, and Modern Sexual Trends“, another steely-eyed examination of the sexes that pretty much validates the core Chateau Heartiste concept … Read more
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This question comes up regularly at Le Chateau. You’ve got two schools of thought. The first insists that smarts, like any other positive attribute, can only raise a man’s dating market value because women are hypergamous and appreciate a smarter man than themselves. The other school says that women are put off by men who … Read more
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Power has an effect on the brain almost identical to cocaine. More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ scientists claim the saying is biologically true. The feeling of power has been found to have a similar effect on the … Read more
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When privy to the secretive, gated world of women, you learn that the idea of relationship leverage — aka “having hand” — is as well-known and accepted among women as it is among pickup artists and naturals. Women are no innocent angels, passively idling their time like pretty mannequins until a good man sweeps them … Read more
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Barack Obama, June 4, 2008 (via Mangan’s): Now let me be clear. Israel’s security is sacrosanct. It is non-negotiable. . . . Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a jewish state, with secure, recognized, defensible borders. Barack Obama, January 6, 2012: Illegal immigrants closely related to U.S. citizens would no … Read more
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Debt and changing demographics are intricately entwined. Any economist who doesn’t include in his analysis of the causes of exhorbitant debt, stagnation, unemployment and declining happiness the unrelenting force of demographic change is doing his profession, and his readers, a disservice. Judging by the vanishingly small number of economists who take an honest look at … Read more
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In yesterday’s post, Days of Broken Arrows made the following observation: “Fatties also have a problem of unreasonable standards. I don’t think I’ve ever met a fat chick who was not convinced that she was still entitled to a 99-point checklist [Ed: 463 bullet point checklist is the term of art] and a man every bit … Read more
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It’s been said before on this blog that women are turned off by men who don’t take charge, and are particularly contemptuous of men who relegate the decision-making process to them. Women, contrary the bleatings of the feminism lobby, are more sexually attracted to men who remove some of the need for female independence. Well, … Read more
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Here’s a simple formula: Economically empowered women + empathetic men = loss of female sex drive. Who’da thunk it! Well, apparently not feminists, because the latest slew of research is sure to give them a crusty old vagina hemorrhage. Using the internet, neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam analysed half a billion sexual fantasies, preferences … Read more
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Posted in Game, Love, Status Is King on Apr 28th, 2011
You’ve spent the day with her, come back to her place, had sex, watched a movie and drank some wine. But instead of sleeping over, you decide to go home to chill by yourself for a night. As you head toward her door to leave, she skips over, throws her arms over your shoulders, and … Read more
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