The emergence of the open relationship as an acceptable and desirable part of modern society -or- Why pulling your partner's friends is okay Finally, after ten thousand years of the development of the human race, we are breaking the tyranny of the genes. There has been happening over the past two centuries - and to more of a degree over the past four years - a social revolution unprecedented by all of human history: this has been a conscious escape from the prison that evolution has put around us.
		By natural selection both our physical form, mindset and assorted other phenotypic effects have been chosen and refined. It has somehow come about that we now like in a largely monogomous society - men and women are meant to partner for life, and produce offspring from this 'perfect' match.      Indeed, not only our genes, but our entire social structure has evolved to accomodate and encourage this. Witness the Church, which spread its influence throughout Christiandom, and from there onto the Colonised world. See our homophobia, ensuring that all people will mate, and no genes will not be allowed the chance to propagate.      Metafunctions in the social world also emerge! Tax breaks for married couples, family credits, child benefit - we put these in place because we believe we are helping the good and the right, but in fact we are doing it simply to ensure the survival of the species, to maximise progagation, and this has been an envolved process.      If we hadn't done it, if there hadn't been these advantages to having children, then how many less would have gone forth and multiplied?      Then too, why is sex so enjoyable? But only decades ago, a mere nanosecond of cosmological time, we struck back. The complexity of our brains, formed to problem-solve and use tools, had unexpected side-effects. We've created contraception, gay marriage, casual sex.      Of course, in this transitionary phase the battle of the grey matter against the genetic code has neither been lost or won. The struggle is still being fought on both sides: 'Homosexual marriage is wrong!' Why?; ''Contraception is against God's will!' Sorry, are you sure? Isn't that an outdated Medieval concept?      Not only is this progression from matter to mind not wrong, it is natural and correct that we should follow it through. We evolved as a species that had to cope with competition from other, similar, species. We developed intelligence where others could run, had sharp teeth. We grew brains. Imagination organs.      In today's world, we no longer face these problems. Our legs to run and our teeth to chew are, in effect, redundant. We face a new scale of difficulty that cannot be evolved with. Our physical side created many of these problems - it can't solve them too.      Overcrowding! Destruction of the rainforests! Do you think we have genetic code especially to cater for these situations? Of course not. The only way to solve these problems it to break down those barriers put in the way by our desire to procreate, our greed, and produce a new way of living. Open relationships is one such way.      This is taking the idea of casual sex to it's logical conclusion. The mass acceptance of open realtionships will naturally completely disassociate copulation from conception.      Already the ball is rolling. The momentum of complete no-strings attached casual sex is building slowing, but it's on the edge of exploding - and when that happens a new world order will fall into place: a new way of thinking which will have evolved not physically but in our minds.      This new way of thinking will automatically take care of the environment, the starving, overcrowding. The demotion of power of these physical urges to mental choices will give us perspective to change the world. Already these concepts are filtering into the world domain and pop culture.      The Spice Girls song 'Wannabe', for example, included the line 'If you wannabe my lover, you gotta get with my friends' - which if nothing else has to be an attraction invitation.      Then, recently, the Top 10 Billy Myer's hit 'Kiss Loraine' told a story of a woman talking to her man who was many miles away. If he felt lonely, he was told, or if his lips felt dry, he should 'Kiss Loraine'. There is little else you could have more explicit.      Add to that the scores of famous people 'coming out' as homosexual and we have a revolution of the brain over the gene on our hands. But it's not complete yet! The war is still being fought - and only if this war is won can these global problems be properly faced.      So do your bit: jump on the bandwagon. Join the crew. Become an evangelist for the open relationship. Sleep around, engage in partner-swapping. It's your duty - and the future of Planet Earth depends upon it.     Front page      |      Old articles      |      Exit