A framework for understanding attraction

The Love
Equations

Attraction isn’t random, and it isn’t fair. It follows patterns, obeys thresholds, and answers to variables you can actually move. This is the map — a market read, not a moral verdict; neither rage nor cope.
What this is

Desire, described the way it behaves.

The Love Equations maps attraction as it actually works — not as we wish it did, and not as the angriest corners of the internet insist. It treats desire as a market with real thresholds, grades every claim by how good the evidence is, and keeps the human center the math leaves out.

Market, not morality

Every score here reads leverage, attention, and options — never a person’s worth.

Evidence, graded

Every card carries its tier, from replicated research to open speculation — and more than sixty popular claims have stood trial on the Mythbuster, each ruling sourced.

Neither rage nor cope

See the market clearly, build where building is real, and refuse both bitterness and delusion.

Start here

The doctrine, in reading order.

Four reads, each assuming the one before it. Everything else on the site hangs off this spine.

  1. The Love Hierarchy

    The gate model under everything. Primary decides whether attraction can start, Secondary whether the dynamic has energy to continue, Tertiary whether it has a base to last. Four takes side by side — Jason’s, a generic male’s, and two reads of the generic female’s.

    Read the Hierarchy
    Primary Core attraction gate
    Secondary Relationship energy layer
    Tertiary Long-term fit layer
  2. The Five Levers of SMV

    What the market prices, and what you can actually move — scaled by three multipliers: the clock, the market, and the context.

    Read the Five Levers
  3. Rules & Frameworks

    The mechanics in motion — the 7–7 Rule, the Conversion Ladder, SMV Matching — and the big claims stress-tested: the Wall, body count, the Charm Ceiling, each stamped with exactly how it holds and how it fails.

    Read the Rules
  4. Gender Dynamics

    The same market, read from each side of it — the offer and the chooser. Candid, evidence-tagged, and honest about what each side never hears.

    Read the Dynamics
Then measure

Six instruments, all on-device.

The doctrine scores things. These are the places it scores you—or tests a claim against the map.

Calculators and Lab sources are processed on-device — nothing uploads silently, and each instrument explains exactly what it keeps and how Reset clears it.
The receipts

Claims go on trial here.

More than sixty popular claims have stood trial on the Mythbuster — each one ruled on, graded by evidence tier, and linked to its sources. Three of the rulings:

Enter the Mythbuster

The numbers underneath

Sourced, tier-graded charts on what people say they want, what the deal actually pays, and who ends up pairing with whom.

Tier 1 replicated research
Tier 2 real but mixed evidence
Tier 3 weak or contested
Myth a popular claim the evidence breaks

Every chart and card on the site carries its grade — sourced where it can be, hedged where it can’t.

Browse the Statistics