The primal pedophile
By: Bert
Many times my thoughts go their own way, when I am cycling alone a bit somewhere. Then I often think of my intense feelings for boys: how do I get in closer touch with one little boyfriend; how do the other little boyfriends' parents think about me; is everything really going all-right, etc.
Lately, I was sitting on my bike once again and my thoughts went in the direction of the biological function of sexuality. Well, that really is reproduction all the same. Not much will come of this reproduction from someone with strong pedophile feelings. So, according to Darwin's Survival of the Fittest, a pedophile will definitely not belong to the stronger ones.
That did not taste delicious. After having ignored a traffic light once again, my thoughts went back to a distant past, to everybody's ancestors, in prehistoric times. In my mind's eye I saw all kinds of men, women, girls and - not forgetting - boys in animals' skins.
This lively spectacle did not yield any dangerous situations in traffic and my bad taste began to disappear. Slowly but surely, a very interesting fantasy developed in my mind's eye. At primary school they imparted a few things about prehistoric times to me. The men went out hunting for a couple of hours or days, the women took care of the children and put things right in the camp. So, actually, man's function was: being strong; he provided the boarding, woman only needed to take care of the food and the children. At this idea my thoughts wandered off to the hordes of zealous feminists who would be down on me as a result of a stand like that. But, let's go back to the thread of my imagination.
When the men are away, the women stay behind together with the children. The fact is that women are not as strong as men. If another tribe hits upon the idea of stealing food and/or children from this tribe, then what happens? The women are not up to the other tribe, so the children and the food will disappear. The endangered tribe is thus threatened to die out. Or: this tribe is the loser in the Survival of the Fittest competition.
The solution seems logical: you just leave behind in the camp a couple of men who are not crazy about fighting and hunting anyway, but who are crazy about the children. Might some tribe come with the wish to steal these kids, then such a "primal pedo" will fight for the children's retention. This other tribe must keep their hands off his sweet children and, of course, off the food too, for this is necessary for the kids. Such a tribe should also leave the women alone, for they arrange the total care.
You may leave behind hunters, though, to protect the camp, but that will have less effect: first, this kind of characters prefers to go hunting, so they will be rather annoyed; secondly, their emotional ties with the kids will be less strong than the primal pedo's. Their ties with the women, however, are stronger though, but this enemy tribe did not have it in for women so much. The hunters have less to lose than the primal pedo's if they are attacked from the o0utside. These latters will therefore fight more fiercely. In other words: a tribe which appoints pedo's to protect the camp during the absence of the other men, will have a considerable advantage in the Survival of the Fittest battle. This would mean that pedophilia has played an important role in modern man's evolution!
The traces can be indicated without too much trouble. First, there are still people who feel attracted to children. But then, this is not too strong a reasoning. Secondly, how do you feel when someone lays his hands on your little boyfriend? - I myself have never been really combative or aggressive by nature; I keep out of a fight as often as possible, if need be even by running away fast. But not that long ago my little boyfriend was assaulted by some character. Then all the same a switch is turned: I was capable of wringing this fellow's neck! May this be the prove then of something like a primal pedo instinct? Maybe my cycling fantasy has run riot, but a nice idea it is and will remain!
source: 'The primal pedophile' by Bert; Original Dutch title: 'De oer-pedofiel'; OK Magazine, no. 35; February 1992