Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!mot!al 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 Lines: 31 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.