FULL DISCLOSURE: I BASTARDIZE A FEW ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES IN HERE. IF YOU ARE AN ECONOMICS PRO JUST ROLL WITH IT FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE POST. ALSO: THIS POST COVERS THE MOST BASIC TENETS OF RP. IT'S JUST A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THEM.

Hello. Welcome to the Economics of Sex. One of the simplest parts of Econ is the microeconomic supply and demand graph. It looks like this:

http://stephansmithfx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Supply-and-Demand-Graph.png

Let's change a few things on it. The vertical axis (in Econ, the independent variable) is now "Attraction". The horizontal axis (the dependent variable) is now "Loyalty". You are the Demand curve and your SO is the Supply curve.

So let's take a look at the Supply curve. In Econ, the higher the Price, the more willing and able a Firm is to produce a Quantity of a good/service. The same applies to women. The higher the Attraction (in this case, how "alpha" you are), the more willing she is to be loyal to you, not cheat (usually, AWALT still applies), etc. The lower attraction is, the less willing she is to be loyal to you; public disrespect, grabbing someone else's dick, etc.

Now let's look at the Demand curve (that's you). Now this is where we bend the rules of Econ a little, but hold with me. Normally, the higher a price, the lower the Quantity Demanded is (follow the curve). In our case, the higher your Attraction (alphaness) is, the less you OVERTLY DEMAND Loyalty. Allow me to explain. When you are in perfect Alpha mode, do you overtly say to your girl "Never leave me, stay with me, don't go talk to Chad"? Hell no. You make your intentions clear through covert methods (freeze out), or you ASSUME loyalty from the get-go. You're too alpha to get cheated on, why worry about it? At the other end of the spectrum, if your Attraction is low, your Quantity Demanded of Loyalty goes up (think the beta who whines when his gf goes out because he knows she's going to suck someone else's dick).

Now we get full screwy with the rules. There is a conflict of interest between Consumer and Supplier. You want the most you can get for the least cost, they want to sell you everything at a higher price. On a normal Econ graph, the Supplier would try to move the point of Equilibrium (where the two graphs meet) to a point that gets them more cash. Here, the Supplier (your SO) wants to LOWER the level of Attraction (and by extension, her Quantity Supplied of Loyalty). All women attempt to beta-tize their men, it's female nature to try and collect orbiters. You, however, want to keep Attraction high. How do you do this? You tip the scales.

If this gets a positive response, I'll write a second piece about the tipping the scales part. Again, I know that there is a bit of bastardization of Econ going on here, but allow it to exist in the vacuum of this post for the sake of the explanation.