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[–]SophisticatedBean[S] 34 points35 points  (6 children) | Copy Link

Now that the mod has deleted my post on similar statistics on Reddit (because it has no DOI and is arguably not quite as methodologically rigorous), I thought this study would be a good replacement.

PDF link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/R_Fraley/publication/240287787_Captured_by_True_Crime_Why_Are_Women_Drawn_to_Tales_of_Rape_Murder_and_Serial_Killers/links/54d3a40f0cf28e0697288c35.pdf

War literature on the other hand is male dominated (82% male), so sex diffs in interest in conflict cannot explain this. It seems it is more about cruelty and dominance, risking rape as Camille Paglia put it.

part of the thrill of sex for a woman is the danger of it—the fact that she is risking rape


Reminds of hypotheses like this one (both the same):

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/ayb9qq/male_psychopaths_are_more_successful_at_dating/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/axc8q3/psychopathy_and_autism_as_male_mating_strategies/

Male psychopathy may be an alternative high-risk/low-investment strategy in which the male risks potentially even death, but is guaranteed frequent copulation opportunities as their behavior also resembles high status. Conversely, women are then selected to find such males attractive and to expose themselves to such males, as their psychopathic offspring will have similarly high reproductive success and hence serve as good vehicle for passing on the women's genes.

[–]lotikpotik 1 points [recovered]  (5 children) | Copy Link

The Ultimate Physical Attractiveness Compilation is also deleted

[–]SubsaharanAmericanshitty h-index[M] 9 points10 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Restored. It looks like OP triggered the automod when he edited the post 3 days ago.

[–]SophisticatedBean[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Thanks, I removed the part about men insisting on virginity. Firstly, it's not physical attractiveness, but more "reputational attractiveness" (unless the "stretching theory" is actually true, lmao). Secondly, according to SCCS, insistence on virginity was common in the past, but not universal:

 165. PREMARITAL SEX ATTITUDES- FEMALE 56 . = Missing data 30 1 = Expected 28 2 = Tolerated 22 3 = Mildly disapproved 11 4 = Moderately disapproved 4 5 = Disallowed 35 6 = Strongly disapproved 282. NORMS OF PREMARITAL SEX BEHAVIOR OF GIRLS 40 . = Missing data 13 1 = Early marriage of females (at or before puberty) 38 2 = Insistence on virginity 37 3 = Prohibited but weakly censured and not infrequent 16 4 = Allowed, censured only if pregnancy results 5 5 = Trial marriage, promiscuous relations prohibited 37 6 = Freely permitted, even if pregnancy results 

Edit: There is something fishy about v282 as it partly contradicts v165 e.g. for Armenians, Khmer and Dafur peoples, strongly suspecting coding errors here. They do correlate with r = 0.67 (p < 1e-16). Correlation of v165 - v282 with cultural complexity is r = 0.35 (p = 0.0002) excluding peoples mentioned above. Controlling for IQ and agricultural soil potential has negligible effect.

[–]look_in_the_mirror2 points3 points  (2 children) | Copy Link

Is there a Backup?

[–]Zealousideals2 points3 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Google still has a cached copy of the post.

[–]look_in_the_mirror0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Thanks

[–]3lirex21 points22 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

most fantasy readers are men .. because we are too tired of this life we like to have a taste of another

[–]Juggernaut_is_here3 points4 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

good one

[–]pricknstab0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

How do other fiction genres compare?

[–]SophisticatedBean[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Possibly something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/RFG8II5.png

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0961000617709061?journalCode=lisb

Edit: Note that the graph above is corrected for the surplus of female reviewers and likely confounded by all kinds of things when doing it this way. Below are the actual percentages:

https://i.imgur.com/u4TDd4l.png

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