Maybe they had to acquire genetic material from other males… Well, mating doesn’t affect a woman’s own genetic make up I don’t think. But she might have more diverse offspring.
Or maybe she has to try multiple men. The following might give you anxiety: https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/how-the-media-shaped-your-idea-of-love-74094cf4674b so I recommend not to look at it. But if if you copy it and paste and go, and suffer from anxiety or stress, you’re on your own. It’s your choice. It’s something I’m referencing.
Another thing – men may have more deleterious results than women. Correct me if I’m wrong in the comment section, but I think men’s sperm DNA damage with age is more than women’s ovary DNA damage.
Edit: I forgot to mention that if a woman was polyandrous, multiple men might mean more resources. A woman might get combined resources of multiple men. Actually, a woman might have two partners, one with (maybe younger) genetic fitness for healthy genes and one (maybe older) for resources. I think I found an article that mentioned a woman having two partners one for healthy genes and one for resources, but I don’t know what article it was found in and I don’t know what the article is.
In spite of female promiscuity and male commitment, we have twice as many female as male ancestors.
Bateman’s principle only applies to viviparous animals. Female promiscuity is most advantageous in ovuliparious and oviparious animals, while polygyny is most advantageous in viviparous animals. This is because oviparious and ovuliparious females can have more offspring and viviparous females can’t have as many offspring, but the same is not true for males.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22285648/ seems counterintuitive as well. But see https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/relationships-weddings/why-women-are-attracted-to-married-men-according-to-science/swjw2nj#:~:text=It’s%20Likely%20A%20Woman%20Thing&text=One%20study%20published%20in%20PLOS,men%20looking%20at%20paired%20women. Based on those two, maybe single women are more likely to initiate contact with married men than vice versa, while single men are more likely to initiate contact with single women than vice versa.
Since women are more likely to initiate divorce, you’d think it’s female hormones that cause people to divorce. But men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to initiate divorce than men with lower testosterone. Maybe both estrogen and testosterone, but not progesterone, are positively correlated with a woman’s likelihood to divorce. To explain this, when falling in love, a woman’s testosterone increases (which increases her lust), while a man’s decreases (which would decrease his lust). Testosterone is also immunosuppressive, so this means that when a man falls in love, his immune system gets stronger due to the decrease of immunosuppressive testosterone, while when a women falls in love, the rise of immunosuppressive testosterone weakens her immune system.
Women being less romantic than men and recovering fully from breakups? I still think it’s feminine to be romantic and lovey-dovey and masculine to be cold-tempered, pragmatic, and heartless. I’d be surpised if men didn’t prefer women that are the former and women didn’t prefer men that are the latter. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-encounters/201408/whos-really-more-romantic-men-or-women which suggests men are more romantic and https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150806151406.htm and https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/men-may-never-truly-get-over-relationship-break-says-study-10450413.html. which suggests women take breakups easier. Women don’t have more to lose than men from mating, per se, they just have more to lose by choosing the wrong partner.
The AVPR1A gene also makes a woman inclined to cheat. https://www.insider.com/is-infedility-genetic-why-people-cheat-2018-10, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2954349/Women-likely-cheat-partner-carry-infidelity-gene-scientists-discover.html, and https://www.insider.com/is-infedility-genetic-why-people-cheat-2018-10. So men should date and marry women without that gene. Should eugenics be used to select against that gene? What about DRD4? Sure, men and women should make effort to overcome their biology.
It’s not like in Hallmark TV shows.