>>100877241>high quality men that women are attracted to through their natural hypogamy are not going to go for a woman with a sexual history. If that were true, then all celebrities and rich guys would be with chaste women.
>It is economics.Economics is very complicated in the real world. You can't just throw out "economics" to justify an seemingly intuitive system.
> Relationships are a system of exchange and if you don't bring enough to the table you don't get the relationship you dream of.Sounds about right, though different people value different things. There's humor, attentiveness, money, intelligence, religiosity, caringness, confidence, submissiveness...etc.
Elon Musk is a "man of value", no? He got with Amber Heard for a time, when she had already been with Johnny Depp before, and with a woman afterwards. Do you think she was "fully chaste", per your definition?
Your "ideal scenario" doesn't correlate to the reality that many people go through.
>>100877299Exactly. It makes it transactional, as opposed to based on mutual caring.