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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: male/female differences
Message-ID: <74@mot.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 16:16:15 EST
Article-I.D.: mot.74
Posted: Sun Jan  6 16:16:15 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 06:16:56 EST
Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ
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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.

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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