Some news items are just too good to pass up. The article begins: "A germ that kills males triggers a vicious cycle of increasing female promiscuity and male sexual exhaustion in a species of butterfly, scientists report." The theory is that the fewer male butterflies were getting fucked silly by all the females, reducing the size of the male's sperm package, which in turn makes the females more determined. The distinguished scholar went to school for years, just so he could get this quote pasted all over the Internet:
"Greater numbers of female partners leads to fatigue in males. They start producing smaller sperm packages," Charlat said. "Unfortunately, the female butterflies instinctively know that the packages are smaller and that their chances of having been sufficiently impregnated after mating are lower than usual. This just makes them more rampant."
Science has confirmed what all men fear: Women can and will, if necessary, fuck their sperm packages dry. Those butterfly vixens sound like Body of Evidence does the Discovery Channel.
