How do male starfish and female starfish find there match?

Answer 1

This question presupposes that starfish only mate with starfish that are "their match." Of course, there is no such thing as one starfish being "the match" of another. To the contrary, starfish simply mate with other starfish at random wherever they find them. And some species of starfish are hermaphroditic, meaning that each starfish has both male and female reproductive systems. Other species of starfish are sequentially hermaphroditic, meaning that they start out life having male reproductive systems and then become female later in life.

In humans, over the last two centuries, it has become popular for couples to marry based on their perception of compatibility and sexual attraction. However, the success of such marriages is debatable, as the current divorce rate in the United States is between 40 and 50 percent, which is much higher than the divorce rate when marriages were arranged based on other criteria. In fact, many modern marriages that end up being successful, in spite of the fact that they are often based only on sexual compatibility, would likely have been successful anyway even if they had married based on older and more traditional methods of finding a match.