chastity

Opinions on chastity; most of them are either partisan or psedo intellectual and never scientific.
Afterall why chastity?
 Half jokingly and half seriously my friend proclaimed “Chastity is lack of
opportunity”. For
the layman it is a rhyming joke. But, it set me thinking “Why Chastity?'

The thinking wheel started rolling bringing out a few facts of life-pleasant
and not so
pleasant.
1.
In all living beings the purpose of sex is reproduction
2.
Sex is a pleasure-full experience
3.
If sex was not pleasurable there would not have been any propagation of
species.
4.
Man has expanded the purpose of sex to pleasure as well. (Procreation is a
recreation
for the creation of life – another rhyming satire)
5.
Variety is the spice of pleasure – why deny it to the women on the name of
chastity?
6.
Chastity means sticking on to one partner.
7.
Male is stronger than female in all mammals and dimorphism is more
pronounced in
lower forms.
8.
In all mammals including humans the society is male dominated – least in
humans.
9.
Chastity is given a moral code and imposed on women by the society –
hypocracy.
10.
In primitive societies the strongest male (the leader) keeps a harem.
(Polygamy is kingly and polyandy is prostitution! undoubtedly – male
chauvinism.)
11.
In humans, the leader need not be physically strong or sexually attractive.
Leadership
depends on multitude of factors. This along with other factors of cultural
evolution paved
the way for male-female coupling inside the society – viz. marriage.
12.
The urge for variety(based on curiosity an innate nature inherited from the ape and evolved to research in man) made both men and women to sneak.
13.
Survival of the fittest is the Darwinian norm.
14.
Humans have expanded it to the prettiest too.
15.
Prettiness is considered an external manifestation of fitness and brightness
16.
Reproduction is the only way to propagate the gene.
17.
Propagating the gene is the main purpose of life (Selfish Gene –Richard
Dawkins)
18.
For women, who ever seeds, half of the child is her genes.
19.
For man there is no way to know that his wife has conceived his child (DNA
scrutiny being
unnatural, doesn’t appeal to emotions and heart).
20.
Poor male, he can ensure the propagation of his gene by ensuring the
chastity of his
female.
*Conclusion*
Man insists on chastity of his woman because of his helplessness (no way to
know) and
natural reasons (urge to propagate) and not because of chauvinism.
 vm 10-09-2007.