Mike Hirsch
On 6/7/06, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Anyway, funny thing is: I was reading some paper
> > about four or five weeks
> > ago in which the argument was that enforced
> > restrictions on women's
> > sexuality was a way to spread the babes around so
> > that all men got a piece
> > of some action. Can't find it now, or I'd send it
> > along, but the author (a
> > feminist) was reciting the major themes of Sb in
> > order to argue that it
> > wasn't necess. hostile to feminist theory and
> > research.
>
> In polygamous groups and societies, the "alpha" males
> do tend to en d up with a dispropotionate share of the
> women and lots of males end up with no female
> partnership (including sex) at all. Taking this as
> freestanding matter, the purely cultural explanation
> that first comes to my mind of is that the dominant
> males would make the concession of monogamy to prevent
> discontent among the subordinate males. The problem
> with this is that lots of polygamous (human) societies
> have been stable for centuries, and I am not sure that
> Gramscian considerations about rule by consent rather
> than coercion appliy to nonhuman groups at all.
>
> A sociobiological explanation -- naturally a
> speculative just so story like almost all evo bio
> stories -- is that non-alpha males have partially
> genetically based characteristics that it would bne
> useful to the survival of the group, thus of the alpha
> males themselves, and maybe the females, to pass
> along, so there may be a partially genetically based
> dispositions to adopt arrangements where the alpha
> males do not monopolize all or almost all the females.
> The disposition must be pretty weak, since polygamous
> groups and societies are not uncommon, however.
>
> >
> > still and all, I wouldn't recommend that Guest use
> > this approach as a
> > pickup line. A surefire way to keep you in need of
> > giant jars of boy butter
> > for the foreseeable future.
> >
> >
> > Bitch | Lab
> > http://blog.pulpculture.org
> >
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