I think if BF were to win a Nobel Prize it ought to be in Economics rather than Science. The "laws" of short term attraction work in an open market in the same way the "laws" of supply and demand work in an open market. For instance, I could have predicted that on the day last week that I got my hair re-platinumed and wore it down the likelihood that a man would go 10 yards out of his way to open a door for me would greatly increase. However, marriage is a closed market in which people can find themselves standing in line for 2 days in order to pay $10 for a rough brown roll of toilet paper. That is why every success on this BB has involved some version of re-opening the closed market. I suppose adultery would be trading on the black market or embezzling.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
