Abstract Across human societies, female sexuality is suppressed by gendered double standards, slut shaming, sexist rape laws, and honour killings. The question of what motivates societies to punish promiscuous women, however, has been contested. Although some have argued that men suppress female sexuality to increase paternity certainty, others maintain that this is an example of intrasexual competition. Here we show that both sexes are averse to overt displays of female sexuality, but that motivation is sex-specific. In all studies, participants played an economic game with a female partner whose photograph either signalled that she was sexually-accessible or sexually-restricted. In study 1, we found that men and women are less altruistic in a Dictator Game (DG) when partnered with a woman signalling sexual-accessibility. Both sexes were less trusting of sexually-accessible women in a Trust Game (TG) (study 2); women (but not men), however, inflicted costly punishment on a sexually-accessible woman in an Ultimatum Game (UG) (study 3). Our results demonstrate that both sexes are averse to overt sexuality in women, whilst highlighting potential differences in motivation.

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谁惩罚滥交的女人？女人和女人，但只有女人才会造成代价高昂的惩罚

摘要 在整个人类社会中，女性性行为受到性别双重标准、荡妇羞辱、性别歧视强奸法和名誉杀人的压制。然而，是什么促使社会惩罚滥交女性的问题一直存在争议。尽管有些人认为男性压制女性性欲是为了增加亲子关系的确定性，但其他人则认为这是性内竞争的一个例子。在这里，我们表明两性都反对公开展示女性性行为，但这种动机是特定于性别的。在所有研究中，参与者都与一位女性伴侣玩经济游戏，该女性伴侣的照片表明她可以进行性行为或受到性限制。在研究 1 中，我们发现男性和女性在独裁者游戏 (DG) 中与女性合作时表现出性可及性的程度较低。在信任游戏 (TG) 中，两性对性接触女性的信任度较低（研究 2）；然而，女性（但不是男性）在最后通牒游戏 (UG) 中对性接触易近的女性进行了代价高昂的惩罚（研究 3）。我们的研究结果表明，两性都反对女性公开的性行为，同时突出了动机的潜在差异。