This! Me and my boys reflect on this aspect of our teens and 20s a lot. We agreed that it’s being socialized to believe that “the chase” is everything that causes many of us to behave this way. You don’t “win” unless you get some and you’ll say anything to win.
I really feel like men's ability to say and do anything JUST to have sex with women is so much more deviant than we acknowledge like- the grandiose lies, will act borderline split personality just for sex, its so ew