Definition
The Cock Carousel (or just "carousel") refers to the multiple men that women (usually in their 20s) sleep with. The metaphor is that women are riding non-stop, jumping from one man to the next. As the carousel moves in a circle, women are not actually getting anywhere in their relationships but going in an endless circle.
Explanation
It is generally thought that young women seek out
alpha males
(often with a higher
SMV
than the woman); given that dynamic, the men have sexual relations with the women and then discard them (
"pump and dump", "fuck and chuck"
).
Rather than learn from the experience and target men with similar
SMV
or with traits that lend themselves to long-term relationships, women invoke their
hamster
to rationalize why there is nothing wrong with their mate selection criteria, and seek out another
alpha male
.
One theory is that
women aim beyond their reach
, attempting to form an
LTR
with a male with higher
SMV
, and use their sexuality to attempt to "seal the deal". When women are discarded,
they rationalize it as "intentional"
(
what ought to be their failure tally becomes their proud "notch count"
- which has no significance for a woman) and
these rationalizations
fuel furtherance of the failed sexual strategy (
"slut game"
). This is all part of female
hypoagency
.
Riding the carousel creates long-term psychological consequences
in women and disagrees with their biological need for relationship security and stability- reducing their ability to pair bond with men, reducing their willingness to trust and love, forming animosity towards men, forming resentment towards their own sexuality, and increasingly viewing relationships as a hostile tug of war rather than a collaborative effort that both partners contribute to.
Ironically, for all the abuse the modern woman subjects herself to in terms of giving up her sexuality for nothing in return, she develops an
"alpha widow"
syndrome where she becomes eternally dependent on Alpha males to excite her sexually and believes that the beta males she must marry (since no alpha would) are a step-down and "concession prize".
