Carole Hooven, Ph.D.

Yeah.

So I just want to pause here and I want to get back to everything else you said.

There are different strategies that different men can use to maximize their output, say, in a natural fertility society.

One is pair up forever with one woman.

Mate guard her.

Be good to her.

I'm going to like getting teary-eyed for some reason.

Invest in her.

Oh my God, I have no idea what this is about.

It's just I have estrogen and estrogen increases crying, which it actually does.

Testosterone inhibits it.

Although I also put on my testosterone gel this morning.

Anyway, so that's one strategy.

And he had to compete and have certain status to get that woman.

You want a high quality female.

You want to keep her.

You can do very well reproductively for your lifetime output.

And you're not out on the mating market constantly being vigilant, constantly trying to take down other males, constantly fighting for status.

You can have sex with a lot of women, which is what you're designed to want sex with more partners than females are designed to want sex with.

But who knows how many of them are going to get pregnant and who knows how many of those babies are going to survive.