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(Image credit: OkCupid blog) This model explains preferences for dating, relationships, sexual activity and even friendships. It's a macro level analysis - individual differences/preferences would always exist. After all, that's what saves the world from being completely deterministic, and people being robotic and completely predictable! Terminology: Agent (n). A person in the system Mate (n). A prospective partner Score (v). To gain access to, as desired (i.e. for dating/sex/marriage/offspring) Statement: There exists a definite, indisputable dating economy, or System. Everybody has a market value (or level). This is based primarily on looks (fitness, attractive features, visibly health and radiance) but also on wealth, intelligence, wisdom, degree of self actualisation, and even environment of residence. Agents typically like to go for a mate ABOVE their own level, and tend to be dismissive about the ones below them. Often agents (esp males) tend to be ambitio...

(The views represented in the following post are personal, subjective and fluid. No offence is intended.) Note To Self: People can be very diverse. If anything, the observable extremes have been stretched wider in Canada. I guess it's important to pen down thoughts when they come, given my memory. Best to showcase significant experiences, or risk losing them. I've lived a long day today, and interacted with multiple diverse personalities. I am floored by how different people here in Toronto have been, both good and bad. On the one hand there are the extremely friendly, outgoing and helpful - typical of North America really as I'm finding (not just in the US). On the other hand, in a brief period I've come across people that have given me rather bitter experiences; people that have been closed minded, racist, condescending, rude, arrogant, and deliberately perverse. Not all the same person of course. I have also encountered not one but two elaborate scammers, and ...