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Tim Tyler's avatar

It is probably obvious, but the sentence in question has subsequently been edited.

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Keith Richard Bouchard's avatar

Perhaps there are social pressures that might prevent a woman or a man from wanting to engage in sex even if she feels evolutionary pressures to do so. 1000 years ago, if a woman wants to have sex before marriage, society gives her every reason in the world not to do so. Today, this kind of puritanical psychological restriction is not completely gone.

That, and women now have a path to status that is not related to how many children they have or what kind of children. They can get status through work, just like a man. Could that cause them to be fulfilled and thus reduce any evolutionary pressure to reproduce as soon as possible?

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