Science Wednesday: Dommes in their (Natural) Domain

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Those of you with a scientific bent, might be interested in an article I stumbled on yesterday in the Washington Post (Lust, Monkeys and the Science of Human desire), which provides some validation for the Domme / sub lifestyle that is a theme that we write about here at UCTMW. Is it really so unusual? Or is a female led sexual dynamic more typical than conventional thinking might persuade us?

The article focuses on a researcher who has studied the behaviors of rhesus monkeys – the type we used to launch into space because of their proximity to humankind. It turns out that that male scientists who concluded years ago that in the primate world males were the sexual aggressors were not watching closely enough.

Instead, it was the ladies who ruled the roost, and they weren’t just satisfied with one “provider”:

There, in Asian mountains or lowland forests, adult males lurked at the edges of female-run domains. The females invited them in to serve sexually. The males remained — desirable, dispensable — until the females lost interest in them. Then they were dismissed, replaced. In his compounds, Wallen removed the breeders and introduced new males about every three years, the time it took for their charms to wane, for the frequency of their copulations — almost always female-initiated — to fade.

This sounds like a society that us submissive guys, and you Domme ladies, might relate to, doesn’t it?

And when the subject turns to what happens after the lady of the house gets her first round of fucking for the day, well, that just primes her for more – even if that first partner is now rolling over for a snooze:

Her fulfillment was short-lived. Within minutes, she was hounding him again. At other moments, she might have moved on to the other male. “She has sex,” Wallen said, about rhesus females on the whole, “and when he goes into his post-ejaculatory snooze, what does she do? She immediately gets up and goes off and finds another.”

Sounds like just another day over at All Mine, doesn’t it? I mean, just because one guy is now zoned out, doesn’t mean the lady of the castle needs to go back to her knitting, does it?

So does this research mean that every housewife is an inner Domme?

Tracking the action of the compound, he asked himself, as he had so many times, whether any of this applies to humans and whether “because of social conventions and imperatives, women frequently don’t act on or even recognize the intensity of motivation that monkeys obey.” His decades of study spanned the human as well as the rhesus realm. He answered, “I feel confident that this is true.”

He didn’t mean to imply perfect correspondence between Deidrah and the average woman. There was too much complexity for that sort of equation. Like lots of current research on human and animal sexuality, Wallen’s work with our close ancestors calls into question conventional assumptions, among them that women have innately lower and less raw sex drives than men, and that while men have been programmed by evolution to spread their cheap seed, to be promiscuous, women, relatively speaking, are genetically compelled to seek out one good man and are at least somewhat well suited to monogamy.

Such notions may be soothing for society — that half the population is somehow biologically designed to serve the interests of stability. But scientists studying female sexuality — from the lusts of Deidrah and other monkeys to the desires of human women, measured in laboratory tests of genital blood flow and explored in longitudinal research covering decades in women’s lives — are starting to suggest that maybe we haven’t allowed ourselves much knowledge about what women want.

So,  for all you sub guys still on the hunt for the Domme of your dreams, don't give up hope. It may be there are more of them out there than you think.