Traditional male mating strategy in our species (and just about every species) is centered around a competition among males to display the highest SMV, with the reward being selected by females for sexual intercourse. This has been covered in depth and breadth in this forum, so I won't subject you to a poor regurgitation. The abundance of it's discussion and support is in it's own right though - because male SMV competition is the human male’s primary mating strategy.

 

However, there exists in many species, a phenomenon called alternative male mating strategy. Although it varies from species to species, an alternative male mating strategy is always a clever way for weaker and less desirable males to avoid competing with the stronger males on their way to securing a mate.

 

In the case of the horned beetle, a 'beta' male will avoid dueling with an 'alpha' horned beetle, by cleverly digging a covert tunnel into the den of the alpha's mate and sneak fucking her.

 

In chimpanzee (those things that share 98% of our DNA) communities where only the top ranked males have mating rights, a small and weaker male will sometimes avoid trying to climb the status latter, and will instead use resource coercion in order to bargain a female chimp into mating with him in exchange for food.

 

So let's talk about humans.

 

When many of us picture a classic beta human, we immediately think of someone who is either a virgin or a virgin sans their current marriage or long term relationship. Or to be crass, the common mantra is "Betas don't get laid!"

 

This stereotype also explains why some of us throw our arms in the air and are quick to dismiss SMV theory, the importance of lifting, etc.. when we witness first hand an unattractive male dating or hooking up with an attractive woman.

 

This kind of paradox is frustrating because it usually comes at a time where TRP principles start making sense and become observable in our lives, only to be proven wrong by one - or even several seemingly contradicting pieces of anecdotal evidence.

 

So the debate becomes - Is TRP wrong? Or are some of us just witnessing rare 'flukes'?

 

Well really, the answer is neither. TRP teaching is spot on about the correlation between high SMV and success with women. This is because TRP focuses on teaching success within the human specie's primary mating strategy - the one where a male strives to hold higher rank over competitors in order to have access to females.

 

But what is less often discussed is the alternative mating strategies that many ambitious low ranking human males execute to mild success.

Some very real life examples of alternative mating strategy in action:

  1. Sugar Daddies - where usually very low ranking men gain sexual access to attractive women by ‘coercing’ them with money and other resources.

  2. Orbiters- where a low ranking man will hang around an attractive female in order to try and mate with her without directly declaring himself a competitor with her stronger high ranking suitors. Perhaps not coincidentally why many orbiters insist on hanging out with a girl without her boyfriend being around.

  3. Sneaky flirters - where a low ranking man will only flirt or approach a girl who has no men around her - and will usually roll back his entire demeanor when one appears.

 

I mentioned above that alternative mating strategies have mild success - in my particular case, as a former ambitious beta who employed some of these strategies, I was usually hooking up with about 2 girls a year. In fact, if you are also a reforming beta with more than 3 past partners, chances are you have used a secondary sexual strategy before.

 

Since the execution of alternative mating strategies is actually quite common in betas - which there are a lot of - I would theorize that there are enough mild mating successes to explain a large majority of the ‘paradoxes’ that frustrate this community,

 

However, it is important to remember that it is called the primary mating strategy for a reason - because successful execution virtually guarantees an access to an abundance of mates, while secondary mating strategies have much more moderate success rates.

 

TRP is quite wise for straying from secondary mating strategy, because it is prone to high opportunity and financial costs for questionable results.

 

In the animal kingdom, where a scrawny beetle can’t get a gym membership and a low ranking chimpanzee can’t Amazon Prime a copy of ‘The Rational Male’, secondary mating strategies make more sense and are even admirable.

 

But such restrictions are not present for a human male living in 2017.