First and foremost I must thank Sareeta for this idea and requesting me to write on this very pertinent topic!!! An honour that she should think I could do justice to this…At the risk of putting a most unromantic spin to the concept of mating, I proceed tentatively herewith
Socio-historically men are genetically predisposed to sowing their seeds far and wide to aid survival of their species. This is not exclusive to just humans, but all flora and fauna. Seeds are meant to be dispersed and the male will always look for the maximum number of mates to achieve this difficult task of furthering their type. And in that vein, men are natural born flirts… they are gifted with the roving eye to select the best possible option available to them to produce an offspring that will be strong and capable of carrying the species forward. It is, therefore no wonder that the male will always have several mates while the female will always look for the best and the strongest to mate with her.
We women always run a mile when we encounter 'flirts', forgetting that they are possibly the most reliable of men. Not only do they acknowledge that they are in fact flirts and that the opposite sex allures them a great deal, they wear their hearts on their sleeves and are open with their feelings too. Those that deny their natural propensity to look and search are guilty of the greatest perjury to nature. These are the men who swear unflinching solidarity and fidelity but lose no opportunity to 'check out' the variety that nature has strewn around them.
The flirts, who are permanently at the receiving end of condemnation from us, are as honest as they can be. These are the men who will openly try their luck at every given prospect and make no excuse about it. These are the guys who will not pretend to offer you anything more than they want to and will never lead you down a path they do not want to share with you. These are the guys who, when they have decided to conform to the social restriction of monogamy, are most faithful and sincere, because their process of selection has been stringent and straightforward.
The Armaans of the real world fall hard when they do fall. They will never use the word love loosely and are extremely discriminatory when it comes to who they decide to spend the rest of their lives with. And once they have decided, nothing can move them from their stance. And why should anything or anybody affect their choice? They've run their own tests and trust their judgment above all else. They know they have hit the nail on the head when they zero in on the one perfect woman for them, so don't expect them ever to deflect. They are blissfully oblivious to any duplicity or deception since they rarely let their 'attempts' dream an impossible fantasy.
There are genuine exceptions to this, ones that we women can identify with amazing deftness, but in general the next time you lucky gals have the proverbial flirt shower you with his love and attention, don't let it scare you away…he has tried and tested and is there with you to stay, so grab on and don't let go!!!