Sin & Savior

CHAPTER 1, PART 1

"That's a praxeological fallacy," she said succinctly and amid the crowd.

"Ah," a burly, lumbering man said from the head of the crowd as he slowly moved toward its center, ascending the staircase with a quietly unspoken grace. "Praxeology, by far the most important yet most underappreciated of social sciences, is the study of human behavior. And yet," he calmed himself as he glanced at the argumentative young lady in the central point of the audience, "in this matter, praxeological arguments are purely aesthetic. Put quite plainly, the science which founds praxeology is more important: biology. You see, positing an argument about whether or not men cheat because they are 'morally bankrupt dogs, loyal only to their dicks'—as you've so eloquently put it," he echoed with a laugh beneath his breath, "one must assess why the man in question biologically desires multiple sexual encounters to begin with."

The professor stated flatly and plainly, "His neurobiology and lower urges, which govern varietal interests in sexual arousal, predate the concept of moralism itself by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. Organized society, as it post-modernly stands, is about 12,000 years of age. True moralism is around 200 years old, emergent sometime within the 18th century as proposed by sociologist Malcolm Waters, and clinically defined in the post-millennial 19th century by Protestant and Roman Catholic Christian denominations wanting abolitionism and respectability politics cultivated here in America. The foundations of the evolution of human sexuality, however, can be traced back scientifically within the domains of sexual reproduction itself—emergent in simple organisms like algae some 2 billion years ago. The basic anatomic and neurobiological structures involved directly in human sexuality have remained largely unchanged for around the last 100,000 years.

While attitudes change and evolve socioculturally throughout human history, the nature of what, or who, 'man' is has not evolved so rapidly at any other point in human evolution than it has today. Evolutionarily," he stated, pointing one swift, curly finger into the air, "males in the vast majority of mammalian species—including humans—have theoretically been capable of increasing their chances for reproductive success by mating with multiple females. Because males can father multiple offspring with minimal biological investment, considering that the females of our species biologically carry the not insignificant burden of gestation and child-rearing in terms of biological investment in reproduction.

Women in pre-modern eras of humanity were also spread much further apart geographically, making it difficult for males to monopolize multiple mates, which necessitated a male to stay with one female to ensure reproduction was successful, developing an evolutionary need—as men—to mate-guard and protect our paternity from infanticide by rival males of our species. Even the male sexual reproductive organs have evolved to eject the sperm of competing males from their female mates in order to increase their chances of paternity. It therefore stands to reason that, while humans have evolved to be both polyamorous and monogamous to varying levels of degree throughout human history, the aspect of your hypothetical boyfriend in question that interests himself in sleeping with multiple women is purely following a programmatic biological imperative hundreds of thousands, if not billions, of years older than your ability to formulate an opinion on why it's right or wrong."

He finished with a deadpan glare in Scarlett's direction.

"But..." she said, with her hand raised, before dropping it in a dejected, sighing surrender—to the shock of her fellow classmates. Scarlett was nothing if not their resident know-it-all: valedictorian-bred, straight-A, full honors student that seemed as though she studied as frequently as she breathed.