Infidelity and rodents

[wishfulthinking]

Honestly, I couldn't stop myself

Scientists say a single gene inserted into the brain can change promiscuous male rodents into faithful, monogamous partners.

Here's the link to a reliable news source if you don't believe me (wishful thinking and all that): http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1133633.htm

Hmmm...strangely intriguing

Also, wonder why they are targeting just males, or do I need to catch up on biology?

 

[Guest]

Hmm... Rodents, Men. (Don't need to read the article.)

Perdita

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Oh great!

Another SPAM subject to find jamming up my email.

I already get offers for viagra, phenomes, penis enlargers, labia surgery, advice on how to earn a thousand dollars per day for no work, fantastic new junk bonds, terminal three-year-olds who wish to receive an email from everybody on the planet before they expire, hundred dollar recipes for ready-mix cookie batter, and chain letters that promise malaria, dysentery, smallpox, typhus, cholera, and bubonic plagues if I fail to forward it to ten of my friends.

Does anyone know exactly what a Yerkes is? I doubt that they even have a nation. Sounds phony to me,

In any case, what is so wonderful about fidelity in a prairie vole? What else has it on offer but to eat grass and mate, and just how different can one vole be from another?

Now, if that prairie vole had been transported to excitingly fresh vistas — say New York, Chicago, or even Cincinnati — we might expect the story to be different.

Forget the single-gene, HOW do they insert it into the head of that promiscuous male rodent? You do the same thing to a promiscuous male human and he will probably become monogamous, too! Possibly even abstemious.

But, is this a good thing? Do non promiscuous rodents produce fewer offspring? And, is this not a long way to go to discover that famous “better mousetrap?”

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

That might someday give a whole new slant to the phrase, "You dirty rat!"

Rumple Foreskin

 

[rgraham666]

Personally, I find this quite chilling.

Are we really so foolish as to think we understand the universe well enough to fuck with it in such a fundamental manner?

And I really resent the assumption that men are reflexively going to betray their mates. No matter how bad my relationships got, or how good they were, it never occurred to me to do such a thing.

Relationships are hard enough without adding infidelity to the volatile mix.

 

[gothgodess]

why does science seem to rely on the opinion that our genes determine everything. I am constanly being told how much I take after my Dad but he is my Stepdad! When will they realise that upbringing and enviroment is just as important.

Also I know married men do stray but there are also married women who stray. why not try and "cure" them as well. Its very nieve to belive that all the guilty parties in affairs are men. there are times when the man is honest about being married and it dosen't worry the women. When will society learn that each affair is as indervidual as the people involved.

 

[minsue]

I didn't check your article, but the one I read in yesterday's paper pointed out that monogomy, as used in the study, had nothing to do with not screwing other rodents and was referring to living under the same roof, as it were.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The Stepford Voles! That's pretty fucking fascinating.

This also means that we also might have the potentital for making women [Il]less[/I] monogamous, which is, after all, 50% of the problem.

---Zoot The Olde Philosopher

 

[Rusty914]

I was able to stop myself

 

[shereads]

Honestly, I couldn't stop myself

Scientists say a single gene inserted into the brain can change promiscuous male rodents into faithful, monogamous partners.

Here's the link to a reliable news source if you don't believe me (wishful thinking and all that): http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1133633.htm

Hmmm...strangely intriguing

Also, wonder why they are targeting just males, or do I need to catch up on biology?

There's another gene that turns men into rodents.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think the best medicine against infidelity - well, second best, after cutting the thing off or sewing up the hole - is love.

I only see Hubby a few times a year. I normally have a very high libido. And when he's not here, I live about 48 weeks/year in a state of sexual frustration. OK, 36, if you don't count the time when I have my period.

Now, I get tempted. Sure I do. I see tons of gorgeous guys in the streets. I have male friends who are not only cute and sexy, but I also know from our past history together that they're great in bed. The temptation is there.

But the thing that stops me from cheating on Hubby, is that I love him so much that I don't want to loose him, which I most likely would if I would cheat on him. So I rather spend 36 weeks a year in the company of Mr Rabbit than I risk loosing him. No guy, no matter how sexy he is or how well-endowed he is or how good he is with his tongue, can match up with Hubby. Sitting alone, waiting for him, is a much more appealing alternative than being with any other guy.

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmmmm, I always suspected those rodents of being Infidels.

Cat

 

[Tanuki]

They should insert that gene into Bachelor participants.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... monogomy, as used in the study, had nothing to do with not screwing other rodents and was referring to living under the same roof, as it were.

That's not monogamy, that's co-habitation

The Stepford Voles! ...

How did that old advert go again?
"Don't fuck with Mother Nature!"

There's another gene that turns men into rodents.

I have a pair of Calvin Kleins that work pretty well.

 

[Rusty914]

I only see Hubby a few times a year.

That in itself helps LOVE.......my wife and I work together, live together......almost everything together and after being married at 18........22 years together we are mostly driving each other crazy of late, lol.


Chris Rock said it the best........Men we will be as faithful as our options.........I agree.