Received wisdom, our early ancestors, running around on all fours, discovered that if they stood up on their hind legs then their arms were free to throw stones, hit with sticks, use tools, so on. All true, but not the most important thing, according to a new theory.
More important, the thinking goes, having use of your arms gave you a crucial advantage in winning a female. It meant that you could bring back food. Catching a rabbit four miles away, difficult to carry it home if you’re on all fours.
You can just hear it, the chatter amongst the females, that old courtship routine with all the muscular display and cavorting about and shouting, that’s just so last year, what turns me on is a man who can bring home a rabbit. To keep me full and warm, also my children, who I now feel more confident about having with him as a mate.
This ancient female insight being so profound and true as to wire itself into the workings of the mind. The consequence ever since, short version, no sex without paying. One way or another.
The question in a woman’s mind, so the theory goes, why should I have sex with you if you don’t give me things, there are plenty of others that will, you’re not so intrinsically attractive that it’s you that I want, though as a stratagem I might pretend so. What I’m drawn to, the thing about you that I find attractive, is your ability to give me things.
This womanly calculus being sometimes deliberate and conscious, in which case, easily detected and repellent. More often, just a deep ineluctable bias.
One inference for the modern man, however you choose to take your sex, you land up paying for it ultimately.
