RE: Odlaylans [posted on wog]

From: Sam Elliot <samclau_at_65OOlpK4KmPyHkZ3d_oZa4nQftt9a7HgX7mMt_6-KYhRdW3wWDxbiUNy0pnlb8fAFEtY>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 06:14:12 -0300

FWIW, in he real world, there is selection on females for promiscuity. Yes female reproductive rate is limited but then the female can choose to a large degree who is the father - polyandry isn't that far behind polygyny and females are not the angels people once thought, biologically speaking. This is what leads to sperm competition and so on.

Sam.

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> From: ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Phil Hibbs
> Sent: 07 September 2007 05:54
> To: ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Odlaylans [posted on wog]
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> I do think that you have to take in to account the different sexual drives
> of men and women. Men have an obvious incentive to try to maximize the
> amount of sex they get, as their production of offspring is only
> limited by
> the number of women they have access to. Women have no such imperitive,
> their reproduction rate is strictly limited so there is not the same
> selective pressure towards female promiscuity.
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> I did come up with a way around this, but I don't think it's suitable for
> Ernaldan women. The idea was in the context of the Balazar game
> that ran at
> Tentacles last year, when one of the characters seemed to have
> more children
> than was likely, and may also have been "putting it about a bit". I
> suggested that she had a secret magical ritual that caused her partner's
> wife to bear her child. She has illicit nookie with a man, he
> then transfers
> the pregnancy to his wife. This could also work for a powerful
> woman who has
> a harem of men and a harem of women to carry the children.
>
> Phil Hibbs.
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