A little study, after reading (all available free online without research accounts as pdfs):
- International preferences in selecting mates - A study of 37 cultures (1990) - DM Buss
- Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures (1989) - DM Buss
- Global Sex Sexuality and sexual practices around the world (2000) - Judith Mackay
Topics raised (in Buss 1989, and peer responses):
- Orgasm as a gauge
- Partner's likeness to parents
- What do males and females choose based on
- Value of these criteria under different circumstances (eg when women make more money; in an industrial society, children's values)
- Criteria that is most variable across cultures (age, chastity)
- Actual choice versus said preference, actual satisfaction, retrospective judgement
- Authority of the sample
- Rape offender's preferences
- Modification of choice based on thinking (type of relationship, acceptability of relationship to others, thoughts about what is healthy, thoughts about what is simply available)
- Value of coyness and easiness
- Moko dude
- Evidence from deception
- Spain as a possible outlyer
- Women put off more by unfaithful husbands
- Mammal females are hard-working mothers
- Employed women a return to historical economic role
- Convertibility of economic resources into value