Keith Wheeler’s Wheeler’s Wisdom | OPINION

By Keith Wheeler
Updated February 19 2018 - 7:17am, first published February 18 2018 - 8:00pm
The fatal danger of society’s sex machine
The fatal danger of society’s sex machine

THE National Geographic story was headed, “Sex, Sex, and More Sex. Then Death”. “The males of these mouselike marsupials practice suicidal reproduction, which is just what it sounds like: mating until they drop dead,” the story opened. Male Australian Antechinus only live for about 12 months, but what a life! Six months after they’re born, they reach adulthood, gain weight for the next five months, then for a wonderful three weeks spend all their time mating.

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