Forum: Story Ideas

Sounds like something by Rache, or one of her many pseudonyms.

She may have written something like this. However, considering the forum section it's in and the poster, I think they're suggesting a plot line for someone else to write a story based on their idea.

Correct, Ernest. It's a suggestion for authors searching for ideas. Although I'd be thrilled if someone could point me to an existing story.

To make it slightly more believable, I'd have the males being the ones who carry the babies like sea horses. That would justify the males' lack of enthusiasm, since human males lose little little independence with the birth of a child in most cases. With this scenario, it would make logical sense that women would be less concerned with the repercussions if they simply dropped an egg and went on their merry way the way men drop sperm.

There's actually some decent evidence that women are biologically more interested in having multiple sexual partners than men are, at least prior to fertilisation. The logic goes like this:

Sorry, but this kind of backward logic concerning genetics has always annoyed me. No one, neither snake, bird or human, has even thought "Hmm, how can I produce the strongest offspring to help advance the species?"

People (and presumably animals) deal with physical attraction. Sure, a couple here and there might be attracted to some monkey's mind, but that doesn't occur often enough to be statistically relevant. Genetics doesn't work through the force of logic, instead it works on a primal level and the species either survives or it doesn't, not due to any plan by the animals in question.

That said, they've done studies of many animal species, and 'cheating' in almost universal in the animal kingdom, with females cheating as much, if not more, than males. By the way, rape and homosexuality are perfectly natural and occurs throughout the animal kingdom, as anyone who's ever spent much time on a farm can attest. (My family raised hunting dogs, and we had more than our share of lesbian bitches!) Again, those dogs don't care whether it'll produce strong and rich children, they act on instinct.

As for increasing the quality of the human race, I only have on suggestion: ban all politicians (and bureaucrats) from ever having sex! (There's no need to stop nerds or authors, nerds don't get the chance, while authors are too busy writing in their basements to ever encounter other human beings for long.) 'D

Technically, "rape" means "unlawful sexual contact". More casually, it means "non-consensual sexual contact". By the first definition, no animal sex would be rape unless there were a specific law against it; by the second definition all animal sex would be rape because an animal cannot give informed consent. Thus, the idea of animal rape is basically meaningless; applying modern human value systems to animals doesn't work.

Actually, there have been some observational studies of apes/monkeys in the wild which demonstrate they use rape as a form of social control (punishing a female not in heat to keep her from distrubing the established social order). If that doesn't qualify as rape, then I don't know what does.

As for animals humping whatever is nearest, I've seen few cases of that. In most cases I've observed of animal homosexuality, a specific animal only makes advances on same sex partners, generally avoiding the opposite sex except during periods of heat. (In one case, back when we raised hunting dogs, we had one we bred who spent all her time chasing other bitches.)

Again, rape is rarely about opportunity as much as it's about 1) dominance and 2) situational opportunity (where an otherwise 'good' or 'straight' person decides, within a particular situation, that it's acceptable for them to break the law. This has been shown in multiple studies dating back to the 50s, but in most cases, the researchers refuse to take their data seriously, instead questioning their methodologies rather than questioning their assumptions about a person's 'core beliefs' (i.e. people are only 'good' or 'evil' based on social cues instead of their inherent character, like the case of honor students cheating on subjects they don't like, or criminals being upstanding family men, morals change based on context all the time, certainly more often than 'bad people do bad things' and 'good people always do good things').

I've long maintained that rape is highly socially viable (i.e. each society establishes certain rules for when rape is a socially acceptable option (generally defined by alcohol consumption). In some countries, rape and sexual advances are generally accepted, while those not accepted while inbibing aren't practiced.