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Strange diversion these letters to the editors take. And yet these letters take on the same theme over and over again...
Women complaining about their hubsands desire for sex after children, and men complaining they don't get enough sex.
One wonders whether monogamy is pretty pointless. Pretty clear that the male biological imperative is to spread as much seed around as possible. The female biological imperative is to have and nuture children.
Sure some of us manage to take ourselves out of the equation and exercise self-control over our animal instincts and choose not to breed. But most give into the selfish animal instincts and have to replicate ourselves endlessly.
No amount of feminism or male chauvinism seems to be able to alter that fact.
One wonders what the point of monogamy is? Seems to me we'd all be a lot happier just giving into the fact that we are creatures of lust and wants. Little more.
