Their power derives from fertility, still. Men's desire for sex is an expression of their desire to reproduce. You can intellectually want to circumvent the reproduction component of sex, but the biological reason you desire sex is reproduction.Martin Hash wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:02 amI don't know if it fits into "Inner Circle" dogma, but not bearing children seems like an instant disqualification. Women hold power because they bear and rear children. Men will do ANYTHING to make that continue, which IS genetic.
As was pointed out, inner and outer circle paradigm is a descriptive model for the expression of evolutionary behavior within the context of societies of ever increasing g complexity
I think the main point here is that we ought to organize our complex civilizations according to the natural family and social structure of our species.
If it helps you to see where I am coming from, consider a planet of the apes scenario where the last hominid species disappears and something like mountain gorillas evolve sapience in a few million years.
Right now we can clearly see the natural social structure of gorillas because they have no complex society to alter and adapt it. Unlike homo sapiens, gorillas are a tournament species: there is one alpha male and a harem of females. Females mostly control what goes on in their own version of an inner circle. The outer curcle is just one guy with maybe a few young males (until they grow too big). An intelligent gorilla species, if that social structure does not evolve into something different, should rhyme somehow with what we observe today. Insofar as the gorilla people deviate from that their society is likely dysfunctional.
Every k-selected social mamnal I know of has an inner and outer circle. Lions, for instance, are dominated within the pride by the females. Males do not do shit except protect the pride from threats and receive sex in return.
With respect to your point, the only reason you can differentiate sex from reproduction is your sapience. Your biological drive, however, is just pushing you to have sex. Your brain is smart enough to slap on a Jimmy when having sex with random women. Our hominid ancestors had no such concept until they became intelligent enough to figure out that sex leads to babies.
Edit: I cannot keep up with Android spelling errors. Sorry.