A web site called "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is using evolutionary psychology to help men succeed with women has started a discussion about my book. Thanks Hans, for getting the debate started. In answer to some of the posts: Of course all men don't fall into 2 catergories: Bad Boy and Nice Guy. We are all the descendants of men who succeeded at the whole range of roles, so we all inherit genes for the urges to act like any kind of man. Yet we wait for our social environment to dictate what kind of strategy is best to pursue. I myself have been treated like Nice Guy and Bad Boy by different women who evoke different sides of me. The point is that women inherit different breeding strategies because of two different reproductive needs: good genes and good nests. The best nest might come from her husband. The best genes might come from somebody else's husband. It's hard to get both in the same man.
These urges separable in women's brains. What turns a woman on about a one-night stand is often the opposite of what excites them about a potential husband. I explain these differences in my presentation.


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