Part of the problem with surveys and studies that try to measure attraction is that they have a habit of being inconsistent or suffer from the replication crisis.

Men and women in national surveys from four countries, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Norway, give mutually inconsistent reports of numbers of opposite-gender sexual partners. In all cases the number of female partners reported by men exceeds the number of male partners reported by women. Gender difference in reporting bias seems to be the most plausible explanation for the discrepancies.

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"Although the gap has narrowed over recent decades, surveys across the world find that men typically report about twice as many lifetime partners as women (Mercer et al., 2013; Todd et al., 2009). This inconsistency has long vexed researchers and has underpinned concerns about the veracity of self-reported sexual behavior in general. The discrepancy also provides a key exemplar to investigate (albeit indirectly) validity and bias in surveys of sexual behavior"...."Previous studies suggest that women increase their reported number of partners more than men when they think they are attached to a lie detector (Fisher, 2013), and studies of survey mode show that women increase their estimates of lifetime partners with Web versus telephone surveys, whereas men’s estimates stay constant (Brown et al., 2017)."...."Qualitative studies lend further support; in development work for the Natsal-2 survey, several participants described how they omitted certain partners from their total count due to shame or embarrassment (Mitchell et al., 2007)."..."The exclusions and adjustments we made to the estimates of lifetime partners still left 37% of the mean difference unexplained."

The methodologies in studies is also particularly painful to stomach when you understand that a number of studies that try to measure attraction are using methods like showing a simple picture of a individual and trying to measure the respondent's self reported attraction. These one dimension studies are, unsurprisingly, inconsistent and are marred by other studies that show contradictory results. Real world attraction isn't measured by carefully curated pictures and questionnaires.

I've been reading Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's book "Everybody Lies" which makes the case for big data's (in the form of online statistics) veracity over surveys in terms of getting more accurate measures of human behavior. Big data in this sense was able to understand where Trump's support base came from during a time when pollsters thought Hillary Clinton was guaranteed to win. One way I think that's particularly useful for this is to see what women are actually looking for when they are selecting their romantic entertainment. We can see what type of porn women prefer in comparison to men through pornhub data, but we can also see what type of romance novels women are reading on Amazon's Best Seller's list.

The list itself consists of 100 novels so I won't do a breakdown of every novel, it would take too long. You can go through it on your own. One thing that's unsurprisingly noticeable is that the covers of these novels are decorated with ripped chads. Not a whole lot of diversity in terms of looks. Regardless, there seems to be a mixture of content itself. Some of it appears to be wholesome romance novels but a considerable amount of them are pretty explicit.

The Boss(hole): An Enemies To Lovers Romance - "I’d love to say I stood up to the bosshole from hell and walked away unscathed, but that’d be a lie."... "I know one thing for certain. No matter how many times I have to look at his obnoxiously attractive, insufferably arrogant rear end, I won’t break. I won’t even bend."

Den of Vipers - "They run this town and everyone in it. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. Yes, sold me. They own me now."

The SEAL's Unexpected Triplets - "Of all the men in the hired security firm, William seems to her to be the least likely to take care of three toddlers. He’s all alpha male, muscle, and military might."

Curly (Hell's Handlers MC Florida Chapter - "Travis Bryant, known in the biker world as Curly, spent thirteen hard years behind bars for a heinous crime he didn’t commit."

The Beaumont Brothers - "Gregor Beaumont is in a world of hurt that all the charm in his gorgeous, well-toned body can’t fix. His late grandfather, God rest his soul, wanted to make sure Gregor and his two playboy brothers settle down. He had the brilliant idea of buying up a huge share of the brothers’ engine company and using that as incentive for each brother to find Mrs. Right. Settle down or lose the company to a competitor. Well, that’s just not happening to Gregor, not when life’s so good at the moment. Gregor likes racing fast cars and seducing fast women, and not necessarily in that order. Settle down? Not a chance."

Caught by the Convicts - "There has been a prison break—and Wendy is right in the middle of it, being swarmed by violent inmates who haven’t had a woman in years. She’s going to be taken hostage. But by whom? Locked in a cell with two men who have no choice but to share their treasure, Wendy is surprised to find…she likes being caught, as long it’s Klay and Ruger doing the trapping. Good thing, too. Because they aren’t letting her go."

The Sweetest Oblivion- "In the murky waters of New York’s underworld, Elena’s sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo. A Made Man, a boss, a cheat—even measured against mafia standards. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. After his and Elena’s first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she realizes he’s just as rude as he is handsome."

The Grumpy Player Next Door - "Under all of those glorious muscles and chiseled cheekbones and searing glares beats the heart of a heartless devil."

Caspian: A Carolina Reapers Novel - "She’s the girl next door, and for the next two weeks I’ll be her NHL star boyfriend."

Honeymoon For One - "To escape local gossip, jilted bride Michelle Bradford embarks on her honeymoon cruise —alone. Coaxed by a thrill seeking hunk she never expects to see again, she slowly sheds her good girl persona to have some well deserved fun. But unlike Vegas, what happens on the high seas doesn't always stay there."

Mated Girl - "Nothing will keep me from my mate, not even the magical world's most high security prison."

Red Thorns: A Dark New Adult Romance - "Sebastian Weaver is the star quarterback and the college’s heartthrob. Rich. Handsome. Bastard. Everyone’s attention flocked toward him and all the girls dreamed to be with him. Not me. At least, not until he made a move on me."

Mile High - "Three years ago, J.J. Santos, Jr. got himself killed—at least that’s what it said on paper. The DEA resurrected me as Mason Black, forcing me to leave behind everyone I’ve ever card about, including an angel in blue scrubs I can’t seem to get out of my head. Her name is Dr. Callie Nicolo, and when our paths cross again, I’m in more danger than ever before. But I’m not about to leave her behind this time. Not even if it compromises my identity and my mission. I’m the kind of man who wants it all. I’ll find a way to pacify the warring cartels on my tail and make up for lost time with the woman of my dreams. Most importantly, I’ll protect what’s mine—the doc who saved my life in more ways than one, and the little girl waiting for me back in Mexico."

Ice Planet Barbarians: A SciFi Alien Romance - "You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet. And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me"

The Spark - "Before I even met Donovan Decker, I knew his shoe size"..."Turned out, it wasn’t just his voice that was sexy. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark."... "Donovan wasn’t just handsome with a panty-dropping voice. He was also funny, smart, and surprisingly down to earth for a man who wore seven-hundred-dollar shoes."

Of course you could say that I'm cherrypicking here and only selecting novels that depicts a specific angle. That's true, I'll admit that. However, even in the more romantic leaning novels there exists similarities to the more abrasive books.

The Duke and I - "Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry"..."But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. And now she has to do the impossible and keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely to the handsome hell-raiser who has sworn off marriage forever!"

It Ends with Us - "Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true."

The Spanish Love Deception - "Four weeks wasn't a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic-from NYC and all the way to Spain-for a wedding. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. But that didn't mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6'4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me." Spoiler alert - She is.

Beach Read - "Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast."... "She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really."

And yeah there are more wholesome books that don't seem to depict a dark side to female sexual selection, like "Wedding Bells on Victory Street" and "The Path to Sunshine Cove". Without reading these books and just going by the cover and blurb there's only so much you can lean in on to see what the content is really about. If you think I'm exaggerating about the quantity or quality of these books then you're free to go on the Best Seller's list yourself and go through the books.

I'm not posting this because I want to make a point about how depraved women are sexually. I actually don't care at all about any of this, it doesn't bother me at all. The reason why I'm making this post is because others on here, especially some of the men, want to post on here and deny that this sexual dimension exists within women. IMO, these men are the real misogynists that shame women for their sexuality, not me. None of this bothers me at all, which is why I'm so comfortable accept this as a reality. However, I tend to see certain men on this sub talking about how women aren't like this, or that it's just the low-class and undesirable women who are into this stuff. However;

Education: This survey found that Kindle users tend to have significant higher education. 72% of respondents had at least a 4 year college degree. Compiling that 72% were those with only a 4 year degree (35%), while 23% had a Masters Degree and 14% had a Doctoral or Professional (JD/MD) degree.

Income: The level of education, which has been found to correlate with income, did not show any significant variance. The income mode fell in the $100,000 – $150,000 range (14% of respondents), but was actually quite evenly distributed among the ranges.

Other Demographic Info: 63% of respondents are Married, 79% are white, 46% live in the suburbs, 20% live in the Mid West (and 17% in North East)

https://floridaresearchgroup.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/demographics-of-kindle-and-other-ereader-users/

Also;

It's a billion-dollar industry that outperforms all other book genres

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/08/600549049/the-billion-dollar-romance-fiction-industry-has-a-diversity-problem

and;

Female: 82%

Male: 18%

Average age of the romance reader: 35–39 years old

Ethnicity: 73% White/Caucasian, 12% Black/African American, 7% Latino/Hispanic, and 4% Asian/Asian American.

Sexual orientation: 86% heterosexual or straight; 9% bisexual, pansexual, or other bi+ identity; 2% gay or lesbian.

92% of survey respondents are print readers; 64% are e-book readers; 35% are audiobook users.

https://www.rwa.org/Online/Romance_Genre/About_Romance_Genre.aspx

Bottom line, these readers are not "trashy, low quality, awful women", these are just women. Sure, it's not a broad sampling of the general population, but the well educated women are well accounted for here. And the books that I'm highlighted in this post are not the worst offenders of the group. If you think that's the case, then go and take a look at if for yourself. Some of the books I've posted cover a wide range of interests, from alpha male SEALs, maniacal mobsters, douchebag dukes, and ripped neurosurgeons. Overall it's not hard to find truths regarding hypergamy and alpha male interests.

At the end of the day, I think surveys and studies are fine, but I don't think they measure up to real world applications. At best, they're good for chin-stroking academics but it's not something that you should build your life around. The real world is substantially more complicated than what you'll find in a research paper dedicated to measure female attraction. And there's nothing wrong with that, women should be free to be honest in terms of who they are and what they like. Posting nothing but studies that only tries to show us that women are wonderful is dishonest. Women are people, and people aren't perfect.