Granted, some degree of sexual constraint by everyone has always been needed to maintain even a functioning culture, much less a civilization. However, in broad terms, many TRP thinkers have argued that both genders compromise on their sexuality equally as part of a primordial compact that undergirds a successful civilization by allowing for widespread, enforced monogamy.
Men sacrifice with respect to their desire for polygamy; women sacrifice on their desire to only be with the best men.
But it seems to me that this equality of sacrifice never really held. The vast majority of men never had any chance at multiple partners to sacrifice. And those that did represented a much smaller portion of the male population than the portion of the female population that had to compromise on their hypergamous desire. Furthermore, as so many TRPers like to say, "High value men don't cheat, they exercise options.". This is to say that the men who had something to sacrifice sexually did not, in practice, sacrifice nearly as much as they were supposed to in theory.
So it seems to me that monogamous civilization was always built on women sacrificing more sexually in return for only some sexual sacrifice on men's part, supplemented by other sacrifices, such as having more dangerous work.
It's unclear whether the sacrifices of each gender ever equaled one another, since women bore the dangers of child birth to at least partially offset the dangers men undertook. In addition, to a great extent, the extra provisioning men provided was to some extent artificially engineered: males were given greater resources for their labor than women, so men had more resources to provide. But it isn't as if most women were idle and not working, even if their labors were not rewarded with as many resources.
At any rate, what seems clear now is that everyone prioritizes sex more. And now female labor is more equally rewarded, and there is less danger in society. So even if the ancient gender compact ever was equal, it no longer seems to be. Sexual sacrifice has more value to both genders than before, and whatever men have to offset a greater female sexual sacrifice has less inherent value.
So the question is, if we assume widespread monogamy is still essential to a flourishing civilization, are we essentially asking women to sacrifice more than men sexually, and thus overall, to maintain widespread monogamy?
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That was never assumed in practice. Only in a small portion of the west was it even the theory, and generally it was well accepted that men cheated and women were kinda encouraged to just accept that as the way men are.
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