Are you healthy, single and do you like chocolate...?
So, I have a theory, inspired by one of my friends who has this other theory... hee.
I have been reading (check out every month's Cosmo) a lot about how come men are missing that MONOGAMY gene... Ok, so this is also inspired by a friend who has been lamenting the eternal mystery a la why so many of our guys (her's in this case...) ( who no one has seen since...well, since he confessed to wandering off into - or under - some strange woman's skirt), precious to us and god-fearing as they may be, stray...
I have also been wondering if this really is a guy thing or maybe we chicks have better grapevines and this is why word gets out more. Do guys cheat more or do they just have crap PR?
Okay, firstly, what is with guys and the whole 'I want a buffet of women' thing?Well, because I am here for you and will investigate any and all potential theories, I decided to find out whether this is a physical thing, mental thing or a bit of both.
So I asked around. Let me tell you, this is not for the faint-hearted or any of you who have exhibited homicidal tendencies. Be afraid of taking a walk down the male psyche, you may not like some of the things that lurk there. Well, I got lots of explanations as to why men have an easy time going to all four bases with more than one women and they ranged from:
- God intended it which is why there are more women than men - riiiggghhhtt...! If anything, I think this is license for women to venture forth...
- Men have an in-built, genetic desire (because God intended it I am assuming) to spread their seed...
- Variety is the spice of life... yup, just like the clap will spice up your life...
Anyhoo, you get the picture, most of my interviewees were quick to assure me that they are not just unthinking robots put on earth to ensure the species is propogated, you know, though there is always the danger I suppose of humans going extinct if we stuck to having children with just one person per lifetime... They are thinking, feeling creatures, just like us, but we simply don't understand that there is nothing malicious about the need to be with more than one person!
From what I gathered, painful as it was, there is a school of thought out there regarding fidelity that may go like this: Assume you are a chocoholic. You love chocolate, you eat it for breakfast, broken-heart medicine, feeling-happy snack, you are moggy for chocolate and you love just about every type of it. And chocolate, well it just loves you right back! (Forget the calories and thigh wobbling, just go with the idea).
So anyway, after years and years of happy chocolate eating, you realise that there really is one particular type of chocolate that you want more than others and frankly, you believe it is the chocolate for you. Let's say it's dark, delicious, rich chocolate and you decide that you love it so much, you will only...ever...for the rest of your life...eat dark chocolate. Dark chocolate of course is delighted and is more than willing to make itself available to you for ever and ever amen.
So you eat your dark chocolate and you are quite content, you are getting everything you wanted from chocolate in your dark chocolate and you want for nothing. But imagine one day you are walking along, on your way to work or to meet friends for a drink, and you catch this waft, what is it...?
Milk chocolate...? And what do you see, on your way to the office/pub, but a shop, a chocolate shop, filled to busting point with every type of chocolate known to man...white chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate with nuts! AARRGGHH!
What do you do??? You been eating dark chocolate for so long, you can't remember what the others taste like, but you remember they tasted guuudddd!!!! Imagine you had to pass that chocolate shop every other day to get to somewhere...
Yup, that's pretty much what I heard when I asked why some guys can't abide the whole one-woman thing...well they say, can you imagine eating only one type of chocolate for the rest of your life? Especially when you have to look at and smell all those other types...?
And if the mystery can be reduced to our chocolate analogy, who's to say the girls aren't playing the same game??? Maybe guys don't talk about being cheated on as much as we do???
All I know is I am not ever looking at chocolate the same way again...
Stay happy, stay stylish
Fifi
