The desire for sexual variety as a key to understanding basic human mating strategies

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Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions (2003, methodology): “Multiple sexuality measures were administered, including measures of shortterm mating tendencies (Schmitt et al., 2001), the sociosexual orientation inventory (Simpson & Gangestad, 1991), a survey of human mate-poaching experiences (Schmitt & Buss, 2001), and the ‘‘Sexy Seven’’ trait measure of…”
Are men really more 'oriented' toward short-term mating than women? A critical review of theory and research (2001, background): “In addition, humans have a psychology of in delity and jealousy that appears to be nely attuned to the short-term mating behaviour of spouses (Betzig 1989; Buss et al. 1992; Daly et al. 1982; Shackelford 2000).”
Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating (2005, background): “…Simpson and Gangestad (1991) have shown that the SOI predicts whether someone has engaged in sex with more than one partner in a given time period – a key conceptual element of the unrestricted or promiscuous mating strategy (Baker & Bellis 1994; Barash & Lipton 2001; Schmitt et al. 2001b).”