Genitalia inherently hold value. At the most primitive scenario, if one gender had to try to take it from the other it would require fighting to get it, which shows that at the most basic level it is a reward. And so now with laws (a great positive) each gender has to exchange something to attract the other.

I see so many guys shifting their perspectives to all of this “women want a 6ft+ guy”, “women want a guy with a crimson chin jaw and highly symmetrical face”, “women want the mean guys and that’s not me”. It’s dumb to focus on the stuff you don’t have and can’t change about yourself.

If sex is always a transaction and requires work for most, then why worry about whether all the women you attract “truly like you”. “You” are a product. “You” are only valuable based on what women want from you. So men should focus on what they can become not what they can’t. And if you don’t want to trade other things that women want if you’re already lacking in the things you have no control over, then I guess you’re just cooked.