Accept Your Animal Spirits

I listened to Barry White this morning as I commuted to work and suddenly remembered the strange biological fact that women are more attracted to men with a deep voice when they are ovulating. What kind of devious scheme is that; is mother nature setting up women to be unfaithful? It turns out that a deep voice is correlated with the testosterone level in a man, i.e. women are more attracted to "manly" bodies at the time when they can conceive. They marry the 'softy' who takes care of her and her children, while she has the steamy sex with the guys who are less reliable, but are able to donate their high-testosterone genes.

Well, it seems that our better half is carrying her cross as well. We all know how the "selfish gene" drives us men crazy, or as a friend of mine always says, "we know  that we men are not exactly the offspring of monks". What should we do? Find more innovative sexual partnerships, suffer in our long-term relationship despite our genetic instincts, or re-channel our sexual frustrations in other productive outlets?

Many of our spiritual rules imply conflict. By embracing what the Christ, the Buddha and our True Self supposedly tell us, we are negating the cave man instincts in us, or, as it was the case in our initial story, the urges of the cave woman. We know where sexual repression can get us, as nicely displayed in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Perhaps we should make changes to some of our long-established cultural institutions like marriage. Who knows, perhaps we are still wired to live in a clan with access to many sexual partners and many parental caretakers as we did in the stone ages. God himself  said in Neale Walsch's Conversations with God that marriage was a human invention and is by no means a divine institution.