• Baumeister, R. F., & Vohs, K. D. (2004). Sexual economics: Sex as female resource for social exchange in heterosexual interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(4), 339-363.
• Abstract 6
• A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace in which men seek to acquire sex from women by offering other resources in exchange. Societies will therefore define gender roles as if women are sellers and men buyers of sex. Societies will endow female sexuality, but not male sexuality, with value (as in virginity, fidelity, chastity). The sexual activities of different couples are loosely interrelated by a marketplace, instead of being fully separate or private, and each couple’s decision may be influenced by market conditions. Economic principles suggest that the price of sex will depend on supply and demand, competition among sellers, variations in product, collusion among sellers, and other factors. Research findings show gender asymmetries (reflecting the complementary economic roles) in prostitution, courtship, infidelity and divorce, female competition, the sexual revolution and changing norms, unequal status between partners, cultural suppression of female sexuality, abusive relationships, rape, and sexual attitudes.
• 这是一篇review的abstract， 开篇的第一句是一个非常独特的视角，即将婚恋community can be analyzed as a marketplace， 在这个市场里， men seek to acquire sex from women by ….resources in change. 然后作者继续elaborate 这一视角，society 作为主语开始，therefore define gender roles as if …. ,第二个同样是society 做主语，endow female sexuality, but not .., with values. 后面开始讲另外一个相关概念，the sexual activities of … are loosely interrelated by…, instead of being fully …., and each couple’s decision may be influenced by …. 然后作者点明这是一种经济学的视角，其实出现marketplace的时候就是经济的观念了，economic principles suggest 可以直接讲经济学原则….the price of sex depend on supply and demand, competition among sellers, variations in product, collusion among sellers, and other factors (也可以这么说)。 立马将婚恋中双方看成买卖双方，价格，竞争，变化。 最后一句话是结论，用了一个单词， gender asymmetries , 这大约就是review最终归纳总结出来的规律。 Research findings show … in ……. 的各个dimension就是review的各个角度。
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