Moments In Flow

Tag: mating

  • In Defense of the Player: Desire, Display, and the Engine of Culture

    The Engine Nobody Wants to Name Let’s start with the thing everyone knows and nobody says. The engine of culture—not the whole engine, but the part that produces the new, the strange, the beautiful, the useful—is male display. It is men performing for the attention of women. Not exclusively. Not universally. But overwhelmingly, across history,…

  • The Mating Mismatch

    How Contemporary Society Breeds Confusion, Not Connection The Conditional Logic of Human Mating Human mating runs on conditional logic. Robert Trivers laid this out in 1972 with his theory of parental investment: any cost a parent bears that increases one offspring’s survival chances at the expense of investing in other offspring. The sex that invests…

  • The Social Ecology of Mating, Status, and Filter Failure

    This article is whimsical. Not to be confused with actual academic publishing, but the content cites actual literature. Have fun reading it! For decades, discussions of dating and socialisation have been trapped in individual psychology: “Be more confident,” “Improve your profile,” “Learn the rules.” This approach ignores a more powerful variable — social structure. Who…