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From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson)
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Subject: Male/female differences
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 17:08:55 EST
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> > 
>> > A big difference between men and women is that men are naturally
>> > promiscuous and women are not.  This is because a male can maximize
>> > the survival of his genes by having as many partners as possible.
>> > Promiscuity in women, on the other hand, with their
>> > few eggs, has no advantage: The limiting factor is gestation 
>> > time, not number of partners. "Male promiscuity" is therefore selected
>> > for while "Female Promiscuity" is not.
>> > Now, humankind, with its overly developed brain, has worked this
>> > fundamental tension into an amazing web of customs, beliefs,
>> > rationalizations, guilts  and neuroses.  Females, for example, 
>> > in cahoots with religionists, have run an extraordinarily successful
>> > campaign to convince men that Homo Sapiens is monogamous and promiscuity 
>> > is "immoral".  People in this newsgroup and elsewhere agonize about 
>> > fidelity, the distinction between "friends" and "gender-friends" etc.
>> > Men like to look at pictures of naked women and women say that that
>> > exploits them, etc. etc.
>> > It explains a lot.
>> > 
>> 
>> I like thinking about such things. The conclusion one must reach from your 
>> reasoning is that the majority of males must be ABSTINENT (since some males
>> should be promiscuous, females shouldn't be, and, you know, the NATURAL way
>> it takes one of each sex) ... -)  
>> 
>> If this is what one should learn from Mother Nature, I want to change schools
>>js
>
>I don't really care whether men are promiscuous or not, nor whether
>other women are.  The only person I'm concerned with is myself, and I do
>what I want to do.  I would certainly like to *know* that someone I'm
>seeing is sleeping with other people (partly because I'm endlessly
>curious, partly to be aware of any possible physical/emotional problems
>that could result from this), but I don't *insist* that
>he tells me.
>Also, I do not feel responsible to someone I'm seeing for who or how many I have slept with, although I see
>no reason for that information not to be given.  It's just
>that *I* am the one with the rights here...it's my body, I can do what
>I want.  (No matter what my religious cohorts (*snicker*) tell
>me.)
>
>						Muffy

Both js and Muffy miss the point, which was simply an explanation of
the evolution of male and female sex drives, and of certain customs
in our society, based on the theory of natural selection. 
There was nothing in there that attempted to dictate how men and
women *should* act, only why they have a tendency to act as they do.

I think this is a good insight, and could be very helpful 
in understanding male/female issues (Have you read "Clan
of the Cave Bear"?).



Seth

"We used to play for silver, now we play for life..."