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Much like Alek's article on the Secret Society, this will be a theoretical entry, meant to improve your understanding of large-scale gender dynamics.
Let’s begin with a definition:
The Sexual Market Place, or SMP, is the invisible battlefield on which intrasexual competition is constantly waged, in order for every individual to maximize the chances of passing their genes onto the next generation successfully.
Both men and women are in constant war with the other members of their respective sexes in order to fulfill their genetic prerogatives, which are to survive and replicate. This underlying warfare drives nearly all of human competition and progress in the world.
For both genders, there are only two ways to improve one's standing in the Sexual Marketplace:
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Raise your own Sexual Market Value (SMV)
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Lower the SMV of competitors
And that's literally all there is to it. For the remainder of this article, I'm going to point out common ways that each gender utilizes each option, highlighting certain social norms and forms of intrasexual aggression meant to facilitate those ends.
Let's start with the men.
Comments
Richard Dawkins
YOu must have read Selfish Genes by Richard Dawkins?
Zac
Asian women...
Super article, Drexel-- thank you! Helps explain why I have had a thing for asian girls since high school. In the city where I live (college town where I got my own degree), we get a new batch of Korean/Chinese females every year, and they are absolutely easier to meet and get along with than the average caucasian. I avoid the green card hunters by only taking on the ones who DON'T try to showcase me with their friends-- mutually assured discretion... :) In fact, I am due to cook an Italian dinner for a Korean girl in my apartment tomorrow evening, so wish me luck!!
Jeremy
Very insightful, but as for promiscuity...
Great article, Drexel. I've been reading the site since the summer but this is the first article I've commented on. It includes many points that are shockingly obvious yet most people don't think about, yet we use and observe these tactics every day subconsciously. I am working on finding some lyrical topics to write about since I am a musician and I plan on writing about the SMP and the way our western society is attempting to trick us into buying into the "fat acceptance" and slut shaming/acceptance" movements. Which brings me to my question. Are women promoting the shaming or acceptance of promiscuity? I had always thought society is shaming it which you mentioned, but you also said chaste women are promoting it?
This is a good summation of
This is a good summation of the philosophy that Roissy has been diseminating for the last 6 years. I think it was he that came up with SMV theory, although it was percolating since the early seduction community.
As for "strong independent women", I'm glad you pointed out that that is not something men want. Men want feminine, submissive women. When a women is "strong" and "independent" I know that that is FemSpeak for a "royal bitch". Chase always talks about dating "strong independent" women. I wish he would stop using those terms. That's not red-pill language.
Hey Jack, thanks for the
Hey Jack, thanks for the thoughtful comment!
A couple points.
I believe it was Rollo Tomassi who first dissected the ideas of SMP and SMV, and Roissy has certainly done a fantastic job of his own. I'm not sure who the ideas originated with, but their philosophies have informed a lot of my own work.
Second, it's very important to make a distention between truly strong, independent women--who I think are awesome--and women who brand themselves with the "strong and independent" label--who are masculine nightmares.
I've been fortunate to know and date several strong and independent women (in the sense that they think for themselves, don't go with everything the herd says and make their own choices). Not one of them was a Feminist, and not one of them ever felt the need to declare how "strong and independent" she was.
If you hear those words leave a girls' mouth, she isn't one of them.
SMV Origins
I think Roosh V at rooshv.com came up with the concept of SMV as Roissy was a user from his mid-2000s blog: the DC Bachelor
Origins of "Sexual Marketplace" and "Sexual Market Value"
Interesting discussion, gents. The terms actually do date back a little farther than the 2000s.
The concept of the sexual marketplace has been bandied about in the research community at least since Hooker's 1967 paper "The Homosexual Community" (according to a 1977 paper by Corzine and Kirby... I can't find a copy of Hooker's original paper). Originally it mostly described places where people went to look for one-night stands and/or prostitutes. Although even as early as 1973, it was being used to talk about the broader sexual/romantic market.
Early on it was mostly limited to discussions about homosexuals though. In a quick skim, I can only find a few papers prior to 2000 that discuss the sexual marketplace for heterosexuals (a 1996 paper on the SMV of men and women as determined by skin color, and a 1999 paper that discusses feminism as a rejection of SMV as the determinant of female worth; this one actually uses the term 'sexual market value'). SMP/SMV didn't make the jump to use in discussions of a broad heterosexual sexual/romantic market until the 2000s. At that point, Fast Seduction (mASF), then the manosphere bloggers (Roosh, Roissy, Rollo) popularized these concepts and brought them to mass audiences and out of academia (and, I would imagine, also impacted the direction academia took as well, as the terms gained more popular weight).
-Chase
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