The Polygamous Sex by Esther Vilar

Author:Esther Vilar [Vilar, Esther]
Language: por
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-01T02:08:28+00:00

3.5 SUCCESSIVE POLYGAMY

The successively polygamous man is one who feels overburdened by having more than one woman at a time

and looks forward to shedding one of them — usually the older one — at the first opportunity. While the true polygamist is always touching all bases, the successivist tends to alternate between polygamy and monogamy, in a rhythm depending on how much he can afford to spend on women.

According to which is the more dominant, a man's nurturing instinct or his sex drive, successivists fall into two main categories:

1. Men always on the lookout for a new protégé — the father type

2. Men always on the lookout for a new sex partner — the bachelor type

Of the two, the father type appears to be in the majority. Such men value their nurturing function above everything, and look for partners with the most childlike appearance. Since most women can preserve a

childlike appearance only to the age of twenty-five or thirty at best, these men have to find a new partner every ten years or so. How many 'children' they can adopt in time is in direct proportion to their wealth and status.

Self-made men, the newly rich, tend to be drawn to 'healthy looking' children, to the type of the country girl with rosy cheeks. Men born into the upper class, like aesthetes, often prefer the pale, bony, 'sickly' mannequin type. But they must all, in their different ways, have a helpless look: the protégé must appear to be in need of a strong man's protection. The moment there is the slightest suspicion that the creature can take care of herself, the automatism of the nurturing instinct fails. Once the adopted wife begins, after some years, to look like an adult, this kind of man will have to find a substitute for her. The time of the search for a suitable successor is the polygamous phase in the life of this man, when he is in a state corresponding to pregnancy.

Inasmuch as child impersonation is woman's best paid profession, the 'father' — provided he is sufficiently well-heeled — seldom has too far to look for a new charge. Once he has found a new 'child' and has made sure that she 'needs' him, he gives his grown 'daughter' a dowry, usually the home they shared plus alimony until he remarries (in progressive countries, they call this job-training assistance) and devotes himself entirely to the new offspring. The 'newborn' will be taken out for an airing not in a baby carriage but more likely in a Lincoln or Mercedes, of course, and will be shown off not to the neighbors but to the proud father's colleagues and friends. But the scenario is much the same. Though no one will ask him if she has learned to say dada yet or how her first teeth are coming along, they will all tell him how adorable she is, as he parades her with paternal pride. His pet certainly is sweet, he will say, but she

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