Animal mating and reproduction

The human female has nothing on the female rat when it comes to sexuality. Women or girls are often branded "slutty" when they engage in sex or even when rumours are spread that they engage in sex. Female rats on the other hand come in heat every 4 to 5 days except when she is pregnant or nursing; when in heat, this seductress becomes an actual sex machine where she mates with multiple partners nonstop and she will not care if she is mating with her brothers or with her father. The notion of incest is nonexistent in the rat world. This is the main survival techniqueof the rat which has effectively colonized the world where humans live. In the wild or in the natural world, their numbers are somewhat controlled by their natural enemies.

The queen bee is the only one in a bee colony capable of reproduction. Although all worker bees are also females, their interest in reproductive work is suppressed by the pheromones that the queen secretes. Drones or male bees are smaller in number and they do nothing but feed and wait for a queen who is ready to mate. Upon hatching, the queen bee kills all unhatched larvae and fights to the death all other hatched queens and finally kills her own mother before taking her flight to be fertilized. She flies to an area where drones congregate and she mates wiith several while in flight. The drones give their lives after this moment of mating where its endophaluus gets attached to the queen and he injects his semen into the queen bee and this endophallus is ripped away from his abdomen after the act of mating is done.

Around 90 million sperm are deposited by several drones in the queen bee's oviducts. After fulfilling her mating duties she proceeds to do her life's work which is to produce eggs for the colony. She does nothing but eat and lay eggs which are tended by her sisters who are the worker bees. This strict hierarchy ensures the smooth functioning of the colony and allows the colony to thrive. A queen can lay eggs for over two years if she still has sperm in her oviducts. Should she lose her capability to lay eggs, worker bees intervene to create new queens to replace an aging one.

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Being faithful

A person can easily get distracted living in the modern world. There are attractions and attractive people of both sexes being bannered not just on TV and magazines but also on Billboards showing their best features in various levels of semi-nudity. President Jimmy Carter's candid admission on Playboy of having committed lust in his heart shows that even presidents are not immune to the flaw of 'the wandering eye'. The French are reputed to be the world's most amorous people which would lead one to conclude that most if not all of French women are not faithful to their mates. This is a big generalization but think for a while. If the french male is such a big lover, who does he make love to? his wife exclusively? or maybe if he is not married. his girlfriend to the exclusion of others?

Much has been said of romantic conquests and this brings to mind a question that maybe there are more philanderers than faithful folk in the world. Is man therefore predisposed to have concurrently more than one sexual partner? Can a wandering eye expose a heart that beats with a desire for more than just one mate? Is it any more difficult for a male to be faithful than for a female? I am sure that both men and women share similar desires that need to be fulfilled. Do women secretly fantasize about other men while making love to their husbands? What if there is no sexual satisfaction on one partner or both, will that drive a wedge between two wedded partners? How long will their marriage last in that case?

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