When confronted with a headline like

Queen's contraception awareness program among world's top five

What is a a good subject of her majesty to think? I know that the royal families of Europe have displayed considerable lack of awareness of contraception over the last few centuries but Betty just doesn't seem to be the sort of royal to need such an awareness program. Her children are another matter of course but, if she has had dalliances, she has been remarkably discreet. Ironically, what genetic strength there is in the royal houses of Europe, including Britian, is probably due to a certain lack of faithfullness on behalf of the female aristocracy. Like pure bred animals, the highly inbred royals are at real risk of genetic diseases. Like pedigree dogs, the injection of a some fresh genes into the gene pool from a mongrel that has climbed over the fence can be extremely beneficial.

The royal families of Europe suffer from a number of genetic diseases that are rare in the overall population, haemophilia being the classic example, and any wonder, this relatively small group have been marrying and breeding with close cousins for centuries. It got The Green Man to thinking "why aren't they more genetically diseased than they appear to be?" and "why haven't they started to genetically diverge from the rest of the population?" They did in some ways, the Hapsburg lip, for example, but they are essentially still the same type of human as the rest of us and they shouldn't be. The answer is simple, they are not genetically isolated and it is not the males that are to be thanked. The ones that have been the recepticals of fresh genetic material into this, otherwise, isolated group are the promiscuous royal females. Over the centuries the royal families of Europe can be particularly grateful to the lack of contraception awareness by their female members.

Sadly none of this has anything to do with the article in question which was to do with a new website by Queen's University entitled sexualityandu.ca. Still if The Green Man was still researching gene flow within human populations which he did all those many years ago then the "Promiscuity of the Female Members Of European Royal Families As A Survival Strategy" might have made an excellent PhD topic.

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