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Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as "dating up" or "marrying up" [1]) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person dating or marrying a spouse of higher social status or sexual capital than themselves.
A highly educated woman marrying a high income (and presumably, also highly educated) man is not hypergamy. Hypergamy is generally woman with little or no education and/or poor earning capacity (long term, anyway) and youth/attractiveness (fertility markers) marrying wealthy and/or high status men (of any age or appearance level).
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Anuloma is a Sanskrit term that is used in the Manusmriti, that is the Laws of Manu (Shraddhadeva Manu), to describe a hypergamous union between a high born man and a woman of a lower standing (by birth) relative to the respective man. [1]
The number of childfree women is at a record high: 48 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 44 don’t have kids, according to 2014 Census numbers. The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree.
Human sexual promiscuity is the practice of having many different sexual partners. [1] The results or costs associated with these behaviors are the effects of human sexual promiscuity.
The sex in romance books, readers say, instead prioritizes female pleasure outside of the male gaze. Female characters are in control of their pleasure, emboldened to explore or let go.
Age-hypogamy defines a relationship where the woman is the older partner, the opposite of this being age-hypergamy. [64] Marriage between partners of roughly similar age is known as "age homogamy". [65] Older female–younger male relationships are increasingly researched by social scientists.