We May Prefer To Think Of Ourselves

Looking Back Now On The Whole Sexual Scene We Can See That Our Species Has Remained Much More Loyal To Its Basic Biological Urges Than We Might At First Imagine. Its Primate Sexual System With Carnivore Modifications Has Survived All The Fantastic Technological Advances Remarkably Well.

Monks, Nuns, Long-term Spinsters And Bachelors And Permanent Homosexuals Are All, In A Reproductive Sense, Aberrant. Society Has Bred Them, But They Have Failed To Return The Compliment.

We Are To Put It Mildly, In A Mess, And There Is A Strong Chance That We Shall Have Exterminated Ourselves By The End Of The Century. Our Only Consolation Will Be That As A Species, We Have Had An Exciting Term Of Office.

Aquatic Animals Suffer From The Disadvantage That They Cannot Scream When In Pain, So We Find It Hard To Gauge The Degree Of Their Agony. If Fish Could Scream, Angling Purely For Sport Would Be Outlawed Without Delay.

This Unusual And Highly Successful Species Spends A Great Deal Of Time Examining His Higher Motives And An Equal Amount Of Time Ignoring His Fundamental Ones.