Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Luchy. Loving Wife? Or Praying Mantis?



It's amazing the things you come across just sitting on this couch. In our most recent mental adventure we examined the natural mating behavior of the Homo sapien. Some members of the group argued that the concept of one mate for each human as manifested by the institute of marriage is the natural behavior of man. One person here in particular argued that there was no way for the male human to survive in time without the companionship of a spolingular female mate.





Others in the group, however, made an argument to the contrary. Their fundamental stance was that the human male is made in a way that neither rewards nor even encourages monogomy. Rather the human male offers self evidence, in his ability to succesfully pollenize the human female for eight decades, that his sole purpose in this world is to continually replace his temporary female with a younger, more fertile one each year. It is the opinion of this blogger that this argument is quite sound. I would also add that the proper way to conquer the annual female is likely to swat her swiftly across her head with a club, as was done in the days of our ancestors.



In response to this rather aggressive form of taming the human female, one of our debate participants, Luchy offered a counteracting measure. She openly and quite jovially embraced and endorsed the possibility of a human female biting the head off a human male during intercourse, much like the behavior of the cannabilistic female Praying Mantis. And then she laughed, quite a lot.

It is unclear which side will prevail in this debate likely to challenge the sexes for ages to come. But it is clear that the days of clubbing one's mate are over. And it is also likely that we shall never see the practice of ritual head-biting (the head on the neck) become commonplace in our bedrooms. Whether that is what nature intended remains to be seen.

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