Foxes do it: Evolutionary reasons for sluttiness
As a feminist I get so tired of hearing the same old biological, overdetermined, psuedo-evolutionary scientific reasons for why females of the species are faithful nuturers and men must stick their junk in every warm hole within reasonable proximity. Even though several studies on mammals and all other species have found an astonishing number of exceptions to this “rule”, within human discourse this convenient excuse is thrown around and not questioned when applied to males general lack of sexual self control. And here’s yet another study from Yahoo! science news about female foxes who sleep around in order to increase the genetic viability of their offspring. Indeed, it makes sense for several members of the animal kingdom of both sexes to make as much nookie as possible for this same reason. Unless one is talking about penguins or other animals where extreme devotion to a single partner IS required to propagate the species, it would seem as if female sexual passivity isn’t as overwhelmingly represented in mother nature as we once thought. So there!
