For a moment, step inside the most exciting and scary stock market in the world. It doesn’t just work on Wall Street; it works in every bar, coffee shop, university campus, and dating app on the planet. In this market, the money isn’t dollars or yen; it’s something much more basic: human desire. Everyone, whether they know it or not, is a publicly traded company. You have a value, which is the price of your stock that changes based on an invisible hand and can be calculated in milliseconds by looking across a crowded room or moving your thumb across a screen. Your Sexual Market Value, or SMV,… Read more

In the murky world of human reproduction, where biology meets psychology and evolution whispers its ancient secrets, lies one of nature’s most advanced selection mechanisms. This process was so subtle and complicated that scientists couldn’t figure it out for hundreds of years. Imagine that every time you have sex, not only do millions of sperm cells race to reach the egg, but there is also a complex biological evaluation system that works without anyone knowing about it. This is the world of cryptic female choice, where women’s bodies can choose to accept or reject sperm after sex, which fund… Read more