Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources

[Mr. McD]

New research shows that even affluent college students who don't need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger, research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

The exchange of resources for sex---referred to by scientists as nuptial gifts---has occurred throughout history in many species, including humans, Kruger said. The male of the species offers protection and resources to the female and offspring in exchange for reproductive rights. For example, an arranged marriage can be considered a contract to trade resources.

However, the recent findings suggest that such behaviors are hard wired, and persist no matter how much wealth, resources or security that people obtain.

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6472

[billyoc]

1. Oh, don't think I haven't tried, I couldn't even get something from the dollar menu.

:cry:

[Iris]

3. Well, since you're male, I think you're supposed to provide something from the $ menu in exchange

for the sex (and reproductive rights!)

:shrug:

[Ready4Change]

6. Yah, no go from the gas station, either.

And I'd just gotten a hair cut, so I looked pretty good. (Well, for me.)

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. One of my favorite feminist bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, calls this type of research

Science For Choads.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. "Penguins and other primates"? I didn't know penguins were primates!

:eyes:

:hi:

[DCKit]

5. Well, they're certainly smarter than the average bear. n/t

[Ready4Change]

7. Well, they walk on 2 legs.

That pretty much leaves primates and kangaroos. And I've yet to see a kangaroo in a tux. Thus, penguins are primates.

;)

[Igel]

8. Consider it an example of cataphora.

American Heritage: The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.

"Other" points to the complementation of a set, but rather than having the set precede the use of other in verbal context, the set follows: "Other primates" = "primates other than humans".

Lots of people don't like cataphors. (Would they like dogophors?)

[Jim__]

9. Excellent information. Thank you.

I've never heard of that before.