For generations, biologists had assumed females to be naturally chaste,
while males were renowned for their promiscuity. Now, hundreds of studies
and a spate of books are challenging that conventional wisdom.
Females of many species have evolved strategies for passing on their genes
that involve copulating with multiple males. Males, in turn, have adapted
ways to ensure that their genes, and not those of competitors, are passed
on. Understanding this co-evolution is changing our view of male and female
sex roles.
Read More: Recent evolutionary research challenges notion of Female Monogamy
The early bird might get the worm, but the last in line makes the baby. From bonobo chimpanzees to fruit flies, many female animals mate with multiple partners that often queue up for the event. Studies have shown that the the last male to mate with a female is the most successful at impregnating her.
The last male can take advantage of a more 'sperm-friendly' environment created by males that have copulated before him, according to a new model put forth by David Hosken and David Hodgson of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
Read More: Evolution and Group Sex: Successful Sex Strategy to be Last in Line
From the website: 'College students, 107 females and 57 males, were asked to give single-word or phrase responses to four questions about the 'worst thing' a member of each sex can call a member of the same or the opposite sex. The resulting 134 different words and phrases were sorted into seven categories by peer raters and a series of chi-square analyses were performed. With minor exceptions, no sex differences in responses were found, but highly significant differences were found in insults attributed to and by the two sexes. For example, insults referring to sexual looseness were said to be directed almost exclusively toward women, and those referring to homosexuality almost exclusively toward men, but only by other men. Results suggest that male and female college students agree on some stereotypic differences between men and women in the giving and receiving of verbal attack.'
Kathleen Preston and Kimberley Stanley. Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, 95521 Arcata, California
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Study of Gender Directed Insults
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u41rx10527416n16/
A very interesting essay from the journal of Evolutionary Psychology on sperm competition and its role in shaping the human penis, (size, length, width, forceful ejaculation), evolutionary strategies for successful fertilization i.e. semen displacement and coagulation. On sexual intercourse and evolutionary benefits of deep penis thrusting, function of the foreskin and effects of circumcision, premature ejaculation, female reproductive strategies i.e. copulation with multiple partners, human sexual behaviour and wife rape (males having sex with their partner if suspecting them of infidelity).
From the essay: 'For semen displacement to be adaptive it presupposes situations in which human females have sex with multiple (two or more) males in fairly close succession/temporal proximity to one another.'
Read More: Evolution, Human Reproduction & Fertilization: Sperm Competition, Semen Displacement & Penis
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