Reproductive versus Emotional Success

Evolutionarily (reproductive survival) you’d expect females (min 9 mo investment per child) to be worried about partners ‘falling in love’ with others – because of a great investment and committment per child. Male romantic (but not necessarily sexual) cheating potentially diverts resources to other women’s kids. Males on the other hand, would be expected to try to avoid unknowingly supporting offspring of other men. If a female mate loves others without consummation it’s less evil than sexual cheating from a male perspective, if dictated by evolution. The male advantage reproductively is smaller startup capital per child (as little as 1 minute) to get DNA carried forward. Spiritually though, it’s STUPID to self-injure by repeated emotional/psychological coupling, followed by immediate amputation (flings). Stabilized monogamy facilitates maturity/growth because less attention/time is devoted to establishment of bonds, breaking off bonds, and recoverying from amputation. Mind-body feedback in the endocrine system (and soul) causes INVOLUNTARY emotional response to physical coupling through the reward circuitry. Unlike cultural/cognitive programming (probably in the frontal lobes), the power of physical reward/reinforcement is in the impact to emotional & reward brain regions (closer to involuntary/primordial medula). No lovers heart is too cold to FEEL attached to an object causing repeated reward.

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