id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9893 Human mating strategies - Wikipedia .html text/html 8252 917 58 Since males are the less investing sex in humans, they should pursue a short-term mating strategy more than females.[5] Short term mating is characterized by casual, low commitment sexual relationships with many partners that do not last a long time. Sexual selection theory states that because of their lower minimum parental investment, men can achieve greater reproductive success by mating with multiple women than women can achieve by mating with multiple men.[33] Evolutionary psychologists therefore argue that ancestral men who possessed a desire for multiple short-term sex partners, to the extent that they were capable of attracting them, would have left more descendants than men without such a desire. In the late follicular phase, women are the most fertile in the ovulatory cycle.[67] During this time, there is evidence that females tend to pursue a short-term oriented mating strategy over a long-term one.[68][69] Additionally, female sexual desires increase as well as their attraction towards more masculine males.[5] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9893.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9893.txt