The Murder of Cupid
I've always found it very strange - as well as telling - that human sexuality in the Patriarchy is so extremely different from what animals experience as natural. As it is, in some respects, human sexuality moves along paths that can't even be called natural or just biologically based: They obviously are culturally based, fitting a Patriarchal system that basically goes against Nature.
Mommy LOVES you!!!
Had this Mommy bear not had that precious baby, she may have felt that her "romantic moment" with that one of the several male bears she mated with was a waste of time - or maybe not. As it is, the very idea that the female doesn't want sex in the mating season is ridiculous, but when reading about animals and their sex-life it's often described as if the male is promiscuous, and "the female sometimes have more partners" as if that was something very strange. However, the female is the one with the biological clock, claiming SEX as her body directs her to do. The male may have sex if he fits into her agenda of breeding. If not, then he will have to go without sex, as nothing in Nature takes heed of his urges out of the female based mating season.
In a human Patriarchy, the male is seen as the one who sort of outlines what sexuality is. That makes me suspect that somewhere along the lines of history, when men grabbed power, and the Patriarchy was formed, their sexuality came to represent the common, human sexuality of both sexes. However, that doesn't make it NATURAL, as culture isn't Nature.
In confined spaces, like e.g. on a farm, male animals may get "ideas", so to speak, but Nature it's not. Actually, I think the same goes for humans, which may speak against the one man and one woman kind of romance and matrimony. However, society being what society is at this moment in history (i.e. 2025), most women still want to get married, also because the age of kids growing up to adulthood is set very high in many Western countries. That being the case, the parent, who is obliged by the law to take care of the child, is stuck in a very severe manner, although they themselves may not see it that way.
In a Patriarchy, it seems quite normal for a man to claim sex, whereas the woman isn't met with the same kind of tolerance. Much is to be said about that system, but at this point I shall just point to one fact of Nature: Women - just as animal females - are not to be used as some kind of "sex toys". They are not set to gain access to sex or influence through looks, as the males are: No animal breed goes by a system where the female is bound to be the pretty one, luring on males who may look like shit, and still have sex. On the contrary.
Male peacock flaunting his stuff
"Sexus Animalis. There Is Nothing Unnatural In Nature" by Emmanuelle Poydebat; The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2022
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