When Men Outnumber Women, Long-Term Relationships Thrive

Digital Vision/Thinkstock(SALT LAKE CITY) — Single women who prefer situations when they’re outnumbered by men will probably like the results of a study from the University of Utah.

It seems that men are more apt to commit themselves to long-term relationships when they’re in the majority.

University of Utah anthropologist Ryan Schacht studied 13,000 Makushi people in Guyana where there were more men than women.

Schacht’s chief finding was that the men of the tribe went out of their way to settle down because women were essentially valued resources.

What he was surprised to learn was that there were no males fighting other males for women, like Popeye and Bluto competing for Olive Oyl, nor was than any increase in sexually-transmitted diseases.

While sex was naturally an important consideration, men seem to look at the bigger picture in that “partner availability matters, socioeconomic status matters, the quality of available mates matters,” Schacht said.

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