Steve Stewart-Williams

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, there's not a big cost for men.

So maybe looking at the women's side of it is the wrong, maybe it just doesn't decline for men because it's not such a big cost for men.

I'm not sure.

Can I just add, you know the idea of women using sex to get guys into relationships?

I think it's a bit more symmetrical than that.

I think that sex bonds better.

both partners to each other often.

Yeah, both of those ideas came to my mind as you were saying that.

In terms of what the evolutionary push is, just directionally, I think it's good to look at all the different types of societies.

Do you find that in hunter-gatherers?

Does it persist even in weird societies?

Sometimes that's quite good evidence.

In weird societies, often you have a push against traditional sex differences, and they often emerge anyway, suggesting that there is an innate nudge.

Yeah, if they get bigger...

In abundant societies, it may be that they're expressing themselves more than the level for which they were selected to be expressed.

So it could be that human nature is able to express itself to an unnaturally extreme degree, potentially.

Yeah, does that...

Yeah, that makes sense.

It's not necessarily- Gender equality paradox, but just across time.

Exactly.

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