Monkey Logic

The other day I wrote “But for men it’s sometimes about what people sometimes quite confusingly label ‘power’ – sex without consequences (maybe to spread those genes, who knows?) but combined with the overcoming of female dissent.”

It just occurred to me where this behaviour comes from (d’oh)…

It’s a throwback to our monkey past where we (the boys) were all trying to be the alpha male.

This involved two things; fucking all the girls and winning all the fights, and winning all the fights and fucking all the girls. Repeat endlessly.

It’s all the fella monkeys had to live for after all. They didn’t have a TAB, no beer, no pay-TV, no internet, just a single-minded fixation on plotting and planning to be the alpha male.

And if you think about it, it’s evolution at it’s best. All the blokes are trying to be the alpha male because that is what they are programmed to do.

Evolution then favours the strong and the virile in a self-fulfilling prophecy, and hence comes our blokish leaning towards indecent assault.

Being strong was important for survival amongst all the predators of the day. It was an arms race between the species and they all stocked their armoury through the use of this alpha male model (well at least most of the mammals did, and no wonder we scaled the dizzy heights of domination that we have, eh?).

Once we had developed that brain to the point where our smarts were more important in the alpha-male dogfight, we had also developed the ability to be bored with our own alpha-male groundhog-day lives.

It’s weird then where we have taken ourselves. Into monogamy where this rump of our alpha-male evolutionary past has less meaning but still casts a long shadow over our monkey-dumb drunken behaviour.

When you think about it, ‘power sex’ is about as useful as nipples on a bloke.

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