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10/06/2025

Selection and Beauty: sexual selection shaped us

Originally posted 2020-10-23 17:24:08.

There are two forms of Selection involved in Evolution. Both were described by Darwin.¹ One is Natural Selection, which is the cumulative effect of the environment on organisms, and the other is Sexual Selection, which is how individual organisms choose their partners. Key to Sexual Selection is attraction: we select partners we find attractive. In humans, this is important, because we have overcome most of the environmental factors that impinge upon us.

While the effects of Sexual Selection are best known in domestic animals, where humans do the selecting, we have shaped ourselves through it, by choosing our sexual partners and at the same time, by making ourselves appealing to our targets.²

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10/06/2025

Human Society is for reproduction. Sex matters.

Originally posted 2021-04-01 13:39:37.

I have said many times that ‘the Romans were right’ and so they were. Their understanding of human sexuality, which remains in place across the world but has been suppressed in the Anglosphere, is natural, intuitive and simple. It is based on a six axioms.

- boys go with girls and girls go with boys;
- opposites attract and likes repel each other;
- sexuality and gender are two sides of the same coin;
- to penetrate is to be male, to receive to be female;
- a homosexual male cannot be a man;
- men provide and protect, women make babies and nurture them.

Once these are understood, the whole of human sexuality — and society –resolves into focus.

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10/06/2025

Travestis and traviesas: in memory of Miriam Rivera

Originally posted 2019-08-21 07:24:01.

Earlier this year, one of the travestis best-known in the West, Miriam Rivera was killed in a manner as yet unknown. Miriam was a Mexican traviesa, similar to Brazilian travestis. In order to mark the passing of this beautiful but troubled individual, I am publishing this article about travestis and traviesas.

Who are the Travestis?

Travestis and traviesas are pre-operative or non-operative MtF transwomen; that is to say, they are feminised males who take hormones and have body enhancements, but they retain their male genitalia. They are found across Latin America and also in southern Europe.