Exceptions to Bateman's principle abound, as do hypotheses explaining the evolution of female promiscuity.
In the Islammic world, the "Ummah", female promiscuity is a major fear.
Sue Broom explores recent scientific research indicating that female promiscuity across the animal kingdom is much more common than previously thought.
The operetta is essentially a satire about male desire and female promiscuity.
According to these results, male promiscuity cannot evolve independently from female promiscuity.
And the one on red-winged blackbirds that makes a disdainful allusion to "female promiscuity."
Some of Darwin's colleagues passed along observations of other female promiscuity, but the idea never appeared in his major works.
There are no good published studies on the question, but Birkhead says human female promiscuity seems modest compared with that of chimps and many birds.
The term is still used to configure and organise female promiscuity in contemporary South Korea.