You misunderstand. In nature, sex isn't usually consensual, it just happens, or the custom of the species is that the male just takes it when he wants it. They're not prescribing that same sort of thing for humans.
The talk of paying a "fee" is just shorthand for the fact that everything in nature has a price. An organism has to invest energy and resources building some body part or engaging in some behavior, and the "fee" has to buy it something that furthers its survival. Male peacocks pay a fee for reproducing by having to invest in the huge tail feathers and the energy to display them. Primate males pay the "fee" by investing energy in grooming females. And we've talked before about the fee human males must pay in the form of investing in larger parts to enhance our odds of mating. This is nothing new or radical or offensive.
Humans may call it a "little romance", but it's still the price we pay for making whoopee.
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