Chapter 39 Scene 37 Final grades

Sitting outside with his spouse, the old man raised his wrinkled palm, then stretched his stiff fingers toward the old woman sitting beside him.The woman turned her head, smiling and staring at the man with her opal-like eyes that had been blurred.Finally, the whole family is here. Some of these descendants took several days to arrive.For the first time in decades, the whole family is surrounded by the elderly couple, and the whole family is the product of the elderly couple's long life.There are now five generations of the family, including themselves.Their eldest son is almost 70; their youngest great-grandson was only two weeks old.

The old man gazed into the face of his wife, and his own vision was fading like the woman's.The real cheek in front of her eyes is covered with deep wrinkles, the pair of blind eyes cruelly inconvenience the woman, and the only remaining tooth is exposed between her gentle lips, how much the woman cares for her Proud of that tooth.However, at this moment, what the man saw in his eyes was the smooth and beautiful face, a pair of clear black eyes, sexy lips and shiny teeth.All of this made men passionate 70 years ago.Those past events are deeply imprinted in the man's mind as if they happened yesterday.He remembered the day when they ran through the woods, the man chasing after the woman.Then they lay on a leaf that exudes a sweet smell, and on this day, the man caressed the woman and penetrated her speechless young body for the first time.A woman is always the perfect spouse, mother and grandmother.She is truly an impeccable companion for a man's life.The man remembers a time of tension between them too, just before the woman's menopause.However, this intense period lasted less than five years.

The man has had many opportunities to have affairs, and he has also encountered situations that he couldn't control, but in the end he persisted.Because he is not only afraid of contracting disease, he is more afraid of losing his spouse.A man's last chance to have an affair is shortly after he has just turned 60.It was a frivolous young girl, very much in love with the man's position and his well-kept body.Girls invite guys for a night out.But he turned her down.This can be regarded as one of the smartest decisions in a man's life.Because five years later, the girl died of a venereal disease that was very prevalent in the area.And it is likely that she had already contracted the disease the night she seduced the man.If the man died of illness at that time, he would not be able to overcome various difficulties with his family in the future, nor would he be able to pass on his experience to his children.So what will happen to his spouse and family?

The night a man had his last chance to have an affair, he had sex with his spouse.That was also the last time they had sex.In short, since then, they feel that each other is very old, and there is no need to do that kind of thing that is a burden on the body.And, with or without sex, they were intimate enough anyway.At this moment, the man was immersed in his previous feelings, and he said to his wife, "You look really good." The woman smiled again showing her only tooth.Although chronic stomach pain was eating away at her stomach, the cheerful laughter of the family around her seemed to ease the pain a lot.The woman reached out and took her husband's hand firmly.Ten years ago, she could still see him in her eyes.And now, it seems that there is no need to look at his weaknesses and aging appearance anymore.Gradually, the image of her spouse in her mind was no longer the old man she saw before she lost her sight, and he became the muscular young athlete many years ago.Women remember the day they swam naked in the lake.She remembered the moment of her first dedication to him more clearly than men.

It took them several years to have their first child.However, several children were born very smoothly.Women never want to look for opportunities to have an affair.After a man has gradually acquired property and status, the most feared thing for a woman is to lose him as a spouse.During the years they had lived together, the man had been very irritable and violent for a while, but he had never lost his tenderness, thoughtfulness and good humor.With more and more family members, women always expect him to be a more ideal spouse and head of the family.Thinking back to this, the woman asked her husband again: "Who's here? Have you seen all our children?"

The men looked around at the large crowd that had gathered outside their home.Not only his whole family was there, but the whole village was gathered here, and they intended to stay here all day for the festivities.The children ran and chased around, and some children laughed, quarreled, and cried.The grown-ups were scattered here and there in groups, some sitting on the ground, some standing around, drinking and eating snacks while waiting for the feast to begin.The open space in front of the door was full of chatter and laughter, and occasionally someone raised their voice to greet others.

One by one, the man found where his five children were.He read the children's names to his wife one by one.The woman kept nodding.Yes, all 5 kids are here.The woman gave birth to a total of eight children, but two of them died in infancy.The other child had already married and had died a few years earlier in his fifties. "Tell me the name of the grandson again." The woman urged her wife again.The man knew he had 23 grandchildren, but he couldn't name them all.He called out the names of 12 of his most familiar grandchildren, all in their forties.The remaining grandchildren are younger, some even adolescent, and for the names of these grandchildren the man turns to his spouse.Women remember their names very well.But it doesn't seem to help men.Because even if he knew the names of these young grandchildren, he still couldn't figure out who was who.However, even so, whenever a man hears his wife say a name, he will still reply: "Come."

After the woman said the full name of her grandson, she leaned on her seat with satisfaction. All 23 grandchildren are alive.That's three more grandchildren than her lifelong best friend has.The woman's best friend is also her lifelong rival.The woman who died ten years ago had a complex and varied sexual life, and the woman now recalls that friend with fondness and nostalgia.Both of them should be considered very lucky.Because in their day, most young women either died of disease or accidents, or were unable to bear children; even if they did, the children they gave birth would die before they reached adulthood.Among women of the same age, the number of children and grandchildren born to a woman and her friends accounted for a considerable weight in the population of this village.

The man now said to his wife that he hoped she would not tell him to count their great-grandchildren.The woman shook her head and laughed.At this moment, the man saw the granddaughter who was almost 30 years old.In her arms she held the newborn baby, the man and his spouse's most recent great-grandchild.The woman told her husband that she and her daughter did a good calculation last night. There should be 52 people in their family, and 4 more babies will be born soon.And they now have 16 great-grandchildren.The man listened and leaned back on his seat with ease.He was finally freed from the task of counting people.

"Look at the good things we have done." The man reminded the woman with satisfaction.He also forgot that his wife was blind.The woman listened, shook the man's palm again, and let him go.Her mind was all focused on the conversation around her. Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers from the crowd.A group of naked children ran ahead from the woods into the clearing.Immediately behind them were a group of naked young men with belts hanging around their waists.On the shoulders of the men were three huge prey, forked with branches.The feast of the picnic has finally arrived. We've covered all sorts of affair situations in a series of scenes throughout this book.According to the timing and situation of the characters in the scene, they are all trying to seize the opportunity and obtain as much as possible the fruit of reproduction that is stronger than others.Scene 37 is the last scene of this book. What we want to show here is that, as long as the situation and object are suitable, sometimes monogamous partnership is also the best means to obtain higher reproductive results.

This scene also reminds us that long-term partnerships (including monogamous relationships) have been a part of human sexuality since about 3 million years ago.Whether our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived from the African savannah to the tropical forests of South America and Southeast Asia, or from the outback of the Australian aborigines to the heartland of the Canadian Eskimos, they lived on the continent. In most cases, they are in long-term relationships, most of which are monogamous.But our ancestors were not like the couple in this scene, and the pairing they formed didn't need to last a lifetime.Usually, each person may enter into a spousal relationship with two or three people.But each relationship is one-on-one (although there are occasional extramarital affairs), and often it lasts for years, with deep personal bonds between the spouses.This is very similar to the spouse relationship in modern industrial society. In human history, only between 15,000 and 15,000 years when agricultural life was the main form, monogamy has ever turned into polygamy.This system clustered women around the wealthiest men, those with the most farmland and livestock.Still, polygamy is a long-term couple in which deep relationships develop between a man and several women.Moreover, even in such polygamous relationships, both men and women are still expected to be faithful to their spouses. Until the last few hundred years, industrialization and urbanization have reverted to monogamy, or serial monogamy, in the human pair relationship.Still, even today, women tend to cluster around the wealthiest and most powerful men. As far as the woman in this scene is concerned, she has never had an affair, which is a good choice for her.If what we see in the scenario is correct, a woman's spouse is not only the ideal head of the family, but also the best gene provider, from a reproductive point of view, the woman will gain nothing from having an affair in this situation , On the contrary, she might even lose everything she already had.Compared with her friend who has a more colorful sexual life, a woman has only slightly better reproductive results than her friend.A woman's best friend may not have met an ideal mate in the first place.From the perspective of reproductive results, if a woman's best friend chooses to remain faithful to her spouse, she may achieve less in this life.But the lifetime reproductive outcomes of these two women depended primarily on their ability to attract ideal mates, and less on whether they resorted to infidelity as their reproductive strategy.In fact, these two women did do the best they could in their circumstances. The man in scene 37 has never had an affair, which is also a good decision for him.Although he can gain reproductive benefits from the affair, he may also lose a lot because of it.Especially in his area, a man is always at risk of suffering from a fatal disease due to an affair. On the other hand, he may also lose his precious spouse because of an affair.His spouse not only has the advantages of fecundity, fidelity, etc., but she is also an ideal mother and ideal grandmother. Although most people do not maintain a purely monogamous relationship for life, the average person obtains most of his reproductive achievements mainly through long-term spouse relationships.Sexual strategies such as adultery, rape, group sex (group sex), sex trafficking, or partner swapping can all provide more reproductive opportunities than a single partnership, so long as we make the right judgment based on timing and circumstances.However, if the individual cannot handle it properly, or if he or she lacks the physical and character requirements, the above-mentioned sexual strategies will bring risks to the individual. For example, the couple in scene 37, especially the man, if he had had an affair and thus joined the sperm wars, maybe he would have achieved higher reproductive results.But this inference is only a hypothesis.Because in fact, the man and his spouse decide to avoid the affair based on their own circumstances.They both chose loyal monogamous relationships as their reproductive strategy, and judging by the results, they were all apparently completely successful. However, even though the couple in the scene remains monogamous and faithful to each other, they still cannot escape the shadow of sperm wars.From the outside, the sperm wars seem to have nothing to do with the couple, but in fact, their bodies are always on alert for the sperm war that will never come. Not just the couple in the scene, each of our bodies, without exception, is permanently on alert for the sperm wars.In fact, throughout the reproductive years, the human body is constantly preparing for the possibility of sperm warfare in order to respond appropriately.When sperm wars are less likely, the body resorts to minimal preparations.However, there are times when everyone's body behaves in anticipation of sperm wars, and anticipation of an affair heightens the body's readiness.In most cases, this expectation is usually nothing more than an illusion, and the real sperm war will not happen.But even in today's day and age, the vast majority of men get at least one chance in their lifetime to act on this dream and get involved in the sperm wars.Likewise, the vast majority of women have at least one chance in their lifetime to behave in the same way as men and thus lead the sperm wars.And when the sperm war happens, everyone's body has already made perfect preparations. At this time, the sperm war may become an opportunity to increase the benefits of reproduction. I believe that few readers have seriously thought about the sperm wars and their consequences before reading this book.But it is undeniable that if there is no sperm war, human sex life will definitely lose its color.If there were no sperm wars in the process of human evolution, then humans would only have a small genital, and would only produce very few sperm at the same time. Moreover, women would not have orgasms, and there would be no before and after during sexual intercourse. With tics, all sexual dreams, fantasies, and even acts of masturbation are absent.And each person only needs to have sex a dozen times in his life.Because, we only need to have sexual intercourse when fertilization is necessary and possible.In fact, even the whole of human culture (including sex and society, art and literature, etc.) will be greatly changed in this way. Over the past millennia, the sperm wars have contributed to the social fabric.On the contrary, in recent years, we have also seen that the sperm war has changed in two ways.These two kinds of changes are respectively social and scientific.The first is social change.Governments around the world have successively established child protection agencies, which represents an attempt by governments to shift the economic responsibility of supporting single parents from society to biological fathers who do not want to take responsibility.In fact, this is a very interesting phenomenon.Because no matter where, in order to avoid the responsibility of raising children, some men use the sperm war as an excuse to express suspicion that the child is not their own.So far, such claims of denying he is the biological father have had to go unnoticed.However, with the advancement of science, DNA comparison and identification provides a relatively decisive test method for such disputes.What we are more interested in is that in the future the above-mentioned children We believe that the main impact can be divided into two aspects: first, it will become more difficult for men to sow seeds everywhere in the future than before.Even if they want to deny being the real father and leave their children to their mothers, it is no longer as easy as it used to be.Second, it will be more difficult for women to trick men into raising other people's children in the future.It's not hard to imagine a future where men will routinely demand (or even turn this demand into a male right!) that when a child is born who may be forced to bear the responsibility of parenting, the child will undergo paternity identification. To sum up, the above two traditional sexual strategies will gradually lose their original effectiveness in the future, and relatively, some other sexual strategies that are not popular at present can bring more reproductive results.For example, women will be more free to bear children for most men than they are today.They may not only obtain genetic benefits from the majority of males, but may also obtain long-term economic support.In the process of having children with several men, a woman will still try to start a sperm war in order to make her male offspring also have highly competitive sperm.But judging from the results of the strategy, women no longer need to take the risk of raising children on meager government subsidies (that is, men refuse to admit that they are the biological fathers of their children).Of course, women will find it more difficult, if not impossible, than it was to conceal their behavior from several partners.In fact, however, in the future, women will less and less need to hide the fact that they have multiple partners at the same time.To be honest, in the future, women may even feel that the necessity of a spouse will become less and less important.And even when a woman has a spouse, her abandonment by that spouse doesn't hurt her as much as it did in the past.On the other hand, men can take advantage of women's potential economic capabilities.In the future, they will no longer need to deceive other men to help them raise their children.And in the future, even if they raise other people's children, they will do so under the condition of knowing everything, and at the same time they can judge that this way of raising children will have more advantages than disadvantages.Men may even feel that having their spouses bear children for other men brings them extra income, which helps them in raising their own children. The above-mentioned sexual behavior may gradually weaken the long-term partnership between the two sexes, and at the same time it will definitely change the nature of the relationship between the sexes, but this long-term partnership may continue to be maintained in the future.Men will still guard their mates so they don't get involved in the sperm wars, and women will continue to non-financially pursue partners who will help them raise their children.However, as the problem of financial support for raising children has been solved and the technology of identifying paternity is improving, as mentioned earlier, the effective period of this one-to-one spouse relationship will be gradually shortened.For both males and females, this one-to-one pairing relationship will be established repeatedly during their reproductive years, and each relationship will last approximately just long enough to raise one or two children.For men, future reproductive outcomes will tend to be concentrated among wealthy and status men.This kind of result is not only from the subconsciousness of men, but also may be the reason why child protection regulations must be appealed to legislators! (Because legislators are also men with status.) Only rich men will be able to have children with several women in the future, because only such men will become women's targets.And for poorer men, when they have the opportunity to have sex with a woman other than their spouse, they will face more pressure.Because they have to be more careful than ever so as not to leave any evidence behind. While there will be some changes in the reproductive strategies of men and women in the future, there are, of course, some parts that will never change.Humans' subconscious desire to produce as many offspring as possible can never be extinguished except through gestures, brain surgery, or hormone injections.In the same way, as long as the genes and environment of men allow, they always hope to have as many children as possible with as many women as possible. This subconscious desire of men will never change.On the other hand, as long as women's genes and environment permit, they will always want to pursue the best genes and seek the best life support for their children. This subconscious desire of women will never change. On the other hand, China's mandatory "one-child policy" policy flexibly reflects how the basic human reproductive strategy adapts to social changes.Although this policy succeeded in reducing the number of children per woman (one baby per woman on average), the sex ratio of children in society as a whole was also affected, so that the ratio of male to female babies became 1.6 :1.And what is the reason for this result?In essence, the coercive policies described above are more detrimental to women's reproductive potential than men's.Because a reproductively successful man could have a large number of offspring if he took the opportunity to secretly have sex with many women and win the sperm wars.In contrast, the only way for a woman to have more offspring than other women is to have a son like the man mentioned above.Of course, if a man can give birth to such a son, his reproductive benefits will also be greatly improved.Therefore, under the one-child policy implemented in China today, people will even murder female infants in order to obtain a chance to give birth to a boy. No matter how they explain their desire in their consciousness, their behavior is nothing more than human beings expecting to strengthen the fruit of reproduction biological response. All of the reproductive strategies we've described in this book are applicable to any novel environment.Regardless of how science advances and how society changes in the future, all behavioral characteristics related to sperm warfare will always exist.Because of this, the sperm war will continue to play an important role in the formation of human sexual characteristics in the future.