Suffer is perhaps not the correct word here. I think shminux is thinking of experimenters wining and dining (or not) and then having sex with monkeys.
However there is a totally viable experimental design with monkeys, if any monkeys exhibit gift-giving as a part of mating—just make sure that the males have some resource, train some to give the gift and some not to, put them in a position where they’re trying to win the attentions of a female, and watch what happens.
I agree with you, but this experiment could not have been ethically performed on lab mice or monkeys.
But mere women, well, surely they could suffer for the sake of an experiment.
Suffer is perhaps not the correct word here. I think shminux is thinking of experimenters wining and dining (or not) and then having sex with monkeys.
However there is a totally viable experimental design with monkeys, if any monkeys exhibit gift-giving as a part of mating—just make sure that the males have some resource, train some to give the gift and some not to, put them in a position where they’re trying to win the attentions of a female, and watch what happens.