"The current study provides evidence for the sexual exploitation hypothesis and thus requires a discussion of how these psychopathic traits may coordinate or function as desirability optimisers. What is it about these traits that may make them effective at mimicking desirable intimate partners to females? These descriptions and the results of this study should inform predictions of the sexual exploitation hypothesis in future research (Platt, 1964).

     The interpersonal traits are most obviously representative of attempts to optimise desirability: charming others, believing and convincing others of self-worth and abilities, and manipulating and lying to either denigrate others or enhance the self. These tactics can be done unconvincingly, however, and likely require extensive social processing abilities and skills to exact them effectively and believably. That interpersonal traits correlated with SP and SS gives evidence that interpersonal traits may coexist with social processing abilities and social skills. AFFECTIVE TRAITS may predispose an individual to be able to MANIFEST interpersonal traits without associated feelings of shame and guilt that typically comes from being that way."

     yeah so this says they can have the affective traits but are able to manifest traits that make it seem like that you don't have those traits they lie about who they are and do it convincingly.      "Second, they may orient individuals such that they can more easily say one thing (i.e., “you are my soulmate”), but then do another (i.e., sleep with that person’s best friend). Indeed, there is some evidence that individuals higher in psychopathic traits are less susceptible to the influence of cognitive dissonance, suggesting that they are easily able to say and do contradictory things (Murray, Wood, & Lilienfeld, 2012).

     This ties to Frank’s (1988) commitment model, whereby people tend to be constrained by emotions of guilt, shame, and remorse to exhibit a predictable (and highly beneficial) commitment to mutually supportive prosocial values. That these are subjectively reduced or absent in psychopathy but nevertheless may still be expressed (e.g., Book, Methot, et al., 2015; Porter et al., 2011) may suggest the importance of emotional expressions in procuring a mate.

     With affective traits, there may be the proper expression without the attendant subjective experience of these emotions. This could allow “cheating” on the commitment that underlies those emotions. Thus, higher affective traits may optimise an individual to have a subjectively laissez-faire approach to commitment, allowing them to move from partner to partner without guilt, shame, remorse, or concern for their partner’s interests.

     The lifestyle traits of psychopathy (e.g., impulsivity, sensation seeking, lacking goals, irresponsibility) may optimise an individual’s desirability by orienting them as energetic, dominant, and fun individuals. These traits may communicate in a potential romantic context excitement, adventurousness, and “living in the moment.” Indeed, there is evidence that females rank “socially exciting” as the second most important trait they look for in male partners (Buss & Barnes, 1986).

     In studies that examine relational boredom, a prototypically boring and undesirable relationship tends to contain features such as lack of fun, not stimulating, no more surprises, and no energy (Harasymchuk & Fehr, 2012). Lifestyle traits may signal to the opposite sex that relational boredom is very unlikely with them, and thus stimulate interest in them as potential romantic partners. The evidence from this study that lifestyle traits associated with higher dating scenario ratings supports this contention." So its not the evil shit that women are attracted to.