I'm absolutely not joking. If you think it's anything other than social conditioning (entirely or at least significantly), you need to pick up a book and read or show me the biological data detailing what inherently makes women "gatekeepers" of sex. I've noticed a lot of people are stuck on the fallacious commodity model.
I wasn't arguing any sort of commodity model whatever that is.
Women get pregnant. Men don't.
This basic fact that can't be wished away or ignored has huge consequences.
Maybe you don't know what the word "pregnant" means. Or what a "baby" is?
And that women get "pregnant" and have "babies".
And that men don't.
This is the baseline here, everything follows from that.
And 1000s of people can write 1000s of words, to which you can tack on "because women have babies and men don't"
The specifics of culture can change, and people can pretend that those specifics really matter, but the bottom line
is pregnancy and babies - women have that, men no.
Sex has consequences for women, it does not for men.
That's where "gatekeeper" comes from.
"Hey, let's have sex. It's fun for both of us."
"Yes, it's fun for both of us - but I'm the one who gets pregnant, and you're not. It has consequences for me, and not for you."
"You're right. Let's have sex. It's fun for both of us."
This is so extraordinarily simple that it does require more than that.
Discussions of alphas and betas and PUAs and studies and questionaires - it's all something that might be interesting (yeah it is)
but it's all overlaid on the basic, impossible to change fact
Women get pregnant and have babies - a huge burden and responsibility which every woman knows - and men don't.