to pull in hot guys they want from outside the community, though in both such cases they still had rationalist mates on the side.
Now that is a strategy I can endorse.
According to the one woman whose case I know in detail, this is apparently a pretty strong effect—a female from within rationalist culture, dealing with a guy from outside rationalist culture who has an unmet need for sanity, may appear unto him as a Goddess.
Now that is a strategy I can endorse.
I could believe that.