What is Legitimate Male Reproductive Power?

Here I am referring to the narrow genetic-biological reproductive power of males (not the broader socio-symbolic reproductive power of males). Unless trying for a baby/child, cunnilingus is the only form of heterosexual sex/sexual exchange with no risk of unwanted (on behalf of a male) pregnancy. A woman, if fertile and ovulating, can manually impregnate herself with a man’s ejaculate. This can be a truly terrifying outcome for unwitting males who do not wish to reproduce but the woman does and can reproduce in this way. We males, of the human species, cannot tell whether or when a woman is ovulating. This is in contrast to female Chimpanzees whose buttocks grow redder and more swollen when ovulating, sending the males into a frenzy! We should note, that for human males, we want to know when a woman is ovulating when wanting to reproduce just as much as when wanting not to reproduce (recreational sex)!

Note: it is a form of reproductive coercion to try to pressurize a pregnant woman into having an abortion or from not having an abortion if it is her wish and will, as the embryo or fetus is a part of a pregnant woman’s body. In maintaining male reproductive power (or here more precisely – in maintaining the power not to reproduce) resides in maintaining control over the seed through the deliberate choice to abstain from ejaculating in a fertile woman’s presence, if not wanting a child or children as the only foolproof and socially just strategy to conform with the will not to reproduce. It is high time we men started to reflexively think with our brains and act on this ensuant refined morality on the topic of sex and philosophy of sex (sexology) and not excessively animalistic, undisciplined and unrestrained sexual activity, as is thoroughly manly! That way women might not view us males as weak and suffering from ‘a masculine stupidity’ (paraphrasing a Nietzschian formulation here).¹ To truly make progress on this matter we direly need to shed the liberal hedonism, primarily in over-ejaculation in sexual exchanges with women, currently thoroughly rife and widespread in our modern times.

1. See Nietzsche, F 1886 (2002), Beyond Good and Evil, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 128, ‘aphorism’ 239. ↩︎