


The beta orbiter typically wants to leave this orbiter status. There are dire financial consequences to being a beta orbiter. Women will spend hours a day texting the Gay Best Friend, while at the same time having sex with an alpha male. He may or may not have a "crush" on one of his "girlfriends" but the attraction is not reciprocated. He does not actually have to be gay to be "the gay best friend." The Gay Best Friend is a man that female view as "one of the girls." He engages in gossip, text messaging, and emoticons.

These men tend to believe they are always at fault if they are rejected and will go neverending rounds of working on themselves around women who clearly don't want them. The LJBF Beta Orbiter is a man who makes an advance on a woman, who tells him " let's just be friends." The orbiter continues to hang around this woman as a "friend", hoping that she will develop romantic feelings for him. There are several different types of beta orbiters: The contrast between the conclusions of these two studies may also suggest that, while beta-orbiting is a strategy that may indeed "pay-off" for many men if one primarily desires casual sex, it is woefully inefficient for that purpose compared to a low-trust, high-mating effort strategy.Īnother explanation for the high rate of relationship initiation in the context of one's social circle may be that many people essentially drift through life passively, seizing whatever mating opportunities they get but essentially going for convenience, "the art of the possible", and the best proximate option than having direct solid control over their mate choices, which results in a natural gap between ideal preferences and actual mate choices. Women may also prefer to use a long waiting period to test the man's status, social proof, willingness to invest in her, incite male competition for her favors, either directly or indirectly, etc. This may suggest that women sometimes do trade-off trust for sexual attraction or other desirable partner factors when initiating long-term relationships. Research indicates that most relationships are initiated with people one already knows, either a friend or an acquaintance. There is sexual benefit to being in multiple people's orbit Because girls have so many orbiters who give them attention and validation for free, the need for them to have a nice guy as a boyfriend or husband has been greatly diminished, and they feel freer to chase assholes instead, who offer excitement and drama that her loyal, dependable, kind, and gentle orbiters don't. Girls keep such men around either as backups for whatever man they're with, or as sources of beta bux to complement the alpha fux they get from Chad. An orbiter is a man who hangs around with a girl, especially on social media, in hopes of someday getting in her pants.įunction of the orbiter with regard to the woman
