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by block_dagger 5 days ago
Findings of TFA: Yes.

Women show a robust increase in attraction to cues of ancestral genetic quality (body masculinity, behavioral dominance) on high-fertility days, but only when evaluating men as short-term/unspecified sexual partners, not long-term partners.

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Can we summarize this as "people get horny sometimes" and "ovulating people get horny"? Or is that too reductive?
I am guessing they are trying to make a distinction from mental horny vs physical horny
It is probably safer. Summarize it as sociology during the replication crisis
Which only supports my belief that with the proliferation of contraception tying sex and long-term partnership together is becoming a useless anachronism
Are you kidding? Sexless long-term partnerships are nothing new; they've been around for ages - that's just called marriage!