RHN: I did not write this, it's a quote, of sorts: 'When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of heaven saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord said: My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years. At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth, after the sons of heaven had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. Genesis 6:1'

GHD: That all sounds like an 'alien encounter' episode.

RHN: Oh yeah, well, it's pretty 'alien' to me, too. I am fairly certain, however, recognizing the basic, yet, common, profoundly beautiful nature of sexuality (not at all 'alien' to most of us), that ages ago, humankind, and, supposedly, scifi-wise, myriad other interest groups (see above), did ‘it’, mostly like we do, and for the same reasons.

So, she, woman, positions herself, and he, man -- almost semi-mindless, controlled 99% by hormones, empties himself within seconds, then heads out to meet with his fellow ‘seducers’ around the pulled-Mastodon barbecue fire pit, where, all present, after adequate rounds of grog and serious bragging about their ‘sexual prowess‘, fall quickly asleep -- snoring loudly.

And yet another Cro-Magnon is being genetically assembled in the womb, no doubt, evolving into ‘modern man’.

Without the presence of men, the women, most importantly, took care of the family, and themselves. Men, thus, became dependent on women. We agree here, do we not?

GHD: Now wait a minute, RH, societies are way more complex than that. It's not all sexually oriented. Humans are above self gratification, but for females, and ultimately females in power today, the concept's subtle.

RHN: Your point is?

GHD: Let’s go back, say, around 8,000 years, BCE, to Mesolithic Ireland (now called … Ireland), to a small community of about 150 people living on the banks of a winding, icy cold, glacier melt river, which, obviously due to global warming, no longer exists. This hardy pre-Celtic tribe called themselves the ‘Uppadownafoots’ (roughly translated from rock inscriptions). Today, this group is known to professional anthropologists, worldwide, as the ‘River Dance People’, (okay, okay, I’m taking a few liberties here).

Anyhow, the women of this extraordinary tribe were extremely beautiful: jet black hair, wide-set, big blue eyes, long black eyelashes, pouty lips, ample (in fact, more than ample) breasts, long legs, fair, flawless skin -- like peaches and cream, and the in-bred desire to raise large families. The men of the tribe, to a man, had flaming red hair and freckles all over, but otherwise, were really, really, well endowed. They also had, ‘attitude’.

When the men went out hunting (in truth, scavenging the remains of animal kills and fighting other ‘hunting‘ males for the spoils), the women of the tribe were left to their own means. This, is where the dildo comes in, (no pun here).

RHN: Yeah, right. Dildos.

GHD: No, really. Check this out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun/29080210/

RHN: And, so, women got the upper hand over the men, so to speak.

GHD: Men were really not needed for the sexual act anymore, only for their genetic material -- even back then women suspected there was a connection between becoming pregnant and sex and what their babies would look like. Mostly, they trusted their own genetic contribution, instictively. But this instinct was only a side issue, initially, self gratification was not the point, ultimately, coition, focused on appearance and personality traits, prevailed. But they quickly perceived that they could achieve most of what they needed, without men.

As for the men? They had no clue that this 'absentee' process was, in fact, the beginning of 'politics' as we know it today. In other words, bargaining for position based on what candidates for success 'look like', became common knowledge for both sexes.

RHN: I suppose men then started to ‘buy’ women’s votes with promises of bigger and better dildos to get their 'genes' in the pool? The male offers could make the difference in the group's collective vote. GH, you’re full of it.

GHD: Well, I don’t know about that scenario, back then, of course, that interpretation of 'group' mentality (that's a modern thing), did not exist, but, you have to admit both men and women, even today, are whipped into a lather by the ‘appearance’ of a candidate ... we call it ‘charisma’.

RHN: True, nobody really votes for ‘values’ or ‘ideals’ anymore, maybe, never did, votes seem based on superfical attributes, and mostly physical, at that. But, I think your analogy between self-gratification and the political process is a stretch. Well, time will tell. As for me? I’m voting for Kucinich.

GHD: Pass the OJ, Henry.

G. H. Diel (GHD), and R. Henry Nigl (RHN), are uncle and nephew, respectively, separated by twenty years. GHD is a writer, RHN, an artist. They can be reached at ghdiel@exoptica.com and rhnigl@exoptica.com, or leave a comment here.