Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site psuvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!psuvax1!simon From: simon@psuvax1.UUCP (Janos Simon) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: male/female differences Message-ID: <1606@psuvax1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:18:23 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1606 Posted: Fri Jan 11 23:18:23 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:36:38 EST References: <74@mot.UUCP> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 39 > > > Here is an interesting argument if you like thinking about such > things: > > 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. > > -------------------------------- > Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A > {allegra | ihnp4 } ! sftig ! mot ! al > {seismo | ihnp4 } ! ut-sally ! oakhill ! mot ! al > -------------------------------- > > DISCLAIMER: These opinions are not necessarily mine, but seemed > like a good idea at the time. 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