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ONE-MAN-ONE-WOMAN and VARIATIONS

10/24/2011

 

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One-Man-One-Woman, and Variations
    Beavers, bald eagles, and gibbons mate for life, among the few animal species that do. Others vary from males with harems, to queen bees who mate in midair with any male she encounters. Humano Sapiens  run the gamut: monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, promiscuity, hetrosexaulty, homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, autosexuality, orgies, and quickies.
    In some societies, men are expected to have several wives. There’s a reality TV show called Sister Wives based on a real American family of one man, four women, and sixteen kids. Will there soon be one titled, Brother Husbands?  I’d say no because  polyandry, which is practiced in Tibet, Nigeria, Kenya, parts of China, and a few other places, is not as attractive to male audiences.
    Despite this ebullient diversity, people like presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, go ballistic over anything but one-man-one-woman, dictated, they say, by the Judeo-Christian Bible. The Bible has many polygamous figures, but opponents can always “prove” that that doesn’t mean a thing.  Since religion is often the basis for family structure, one can argue that decreeing one kind of family limits freedom of religion. One-man-one-woman works for me, and if it works for you, why fret about others? Maybe the protesters are trying to shift attention away from their own flaming libidos.
     America had a frontier for some 300 years. Those needing to live by their own rules could always find room, allowing Mormons, Amish, Oneida Community and others to make and live by their own rules. Now the frontier is gone. and the Michele Bachmanns of the world seek to impose their own myopic rules on everyone.
    How liberating it would be to have a society as riotously diverse as nature itself, with families that are straight, gay, polygamous, polyandrous, Christian, Jew, Islam, Hindu, Buddist, Sikh, Shinto, Animist, Atheist, and all others living in harmony and mutual respect, a glorious Edenic garden of diversity, every new bloom greeted with joy. If Humano Sapiens manages not to destroy itself, that can be its glorious destiny.


CH
10/24/2011 10:40:43 am

Ahhhh... but the frontiers will never be gone, the Bachmanns of the world notwithstanding. :)

Casper Roos
10/24/2011 01:17:56 pm

Casper Roos
10/24/2011 01:33:23 pm

Procreation will keep the species alive regardless of man's egotistical concept of what his particular god says he should do so long as the basic sexual equipment continues to function.
Perhaps our species can be saved if our vaunted technology can remove the genes of arrogance and greed from our DNA. I truly believe those genes will be road to our obsolescence.

urbisoler
10/25/2011 09:28:32 am

We so long for peace and harmony that we build utopian castles in the sand. Alas, the real world in the form of a tsunami wave comes along to wash away the dreams. Those genes are there to promote our survival - perhaps of the fittest. Man is territorial. It has been stated that civilization began when the first man built a fence. Man WILL defend his property. Nature, heretofore, has always taken care of excess populations in the form of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. We have presumably reached a point where nature can no longer control the crowd. There are 7 billions of people on the finite planet called Earth. It is cklaimed that resources are increasingly deficient in sustaining that population. What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? We can write a song about it but we have never encountered a real life situation. Considering today's weapons of mass destruction, WWIII sounds like an abysmal way out of the problem. The alternative might be for Jack Benny to come down to Earth and sound his trumpet.


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