You
know how there's those horrible t-shirts for expectant dads expressing
pride in having fast sperm and so on? It turns out that women's plumbing might actually make the final call
in the mating game. Researchers are looking at female reproductive
systems, and finding some things that they say explain female
promiscuity in some species. The findings could also have implications
in IVF and cloning and so on. They looked at the oviducts of pigs (we
are kinda like pigs) and found that a series of changes occur when the
presence of sperm is detected. Basically the oviductal environment
changes to store sperm and get it to the egg safely. That's right:
Females call the shots. Mmm hmm.
And how does this apply to
tramping around?
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