HSS: Strategies of Human Mating

Humans have a menu of mating strategies.  These include long-term committed mating, casual sex, extra-pair copulation, mate poaching, and serial mating.  The key to understanding mating strategies centers on identifying what women and men want in different mating relationships.  Knowledge of these mate preferences provides insight into the most important aspects of human mating—tactics of mate attraction, tactics of mate retention, love, romantic harmony, sexual jealousy, mate poaching, and sexual conflict.