Bear with me please, it’s just a hypothetical scenario but IMHO it’s interesting…
After a ‘war’ with Russia, China, Mexico by Trump causes a destruction in infrastructure and a bio-weapon reduces the global population to 7 million people with 0.001 people being reduce in each region proportionally. The thing is, men are also reduced in that population by 0.001 % also, in one week leaving 7,000 men across the world.
Now assuming your a lucky guy living somewhere like in Dublin The Republic of Ireland on the ‘Irish Isle’. There are only 4 men left in the whole of Ireland while there are about 4,500 women. These guys are under 25 and like most of the men left, they don’t know how to run infrastructure, so transportation, communications (phones, internet, faxes) all break down with the exception of cars. Women can’t get in touch with other men or women from across the country.
You live in a small Dublin town where you wake up to find out that you’re the only male (18, 5ft 5in) surrounded by 25 females (18-30). Like me, you would be relatively small, minimum strength, not very intelligent compared to most females (athletic, taller highly knowledgeable,etc.
Would gender dynamics switch in this society? If let’s say a 30yr old woman in the group thought she was passing her prime age and wanted the to have children and keep the community alive would she resort to rape to have kids?
You would all move in together in an old boarding house, where you will constantly be accidentally walking in on the women while they are bathing or changing clothes. You will also constantly trip and fall into the women, grabbing them in inappropriate places. Some of the women will hit you so hard for this that you will fly into the air. Others will aggressively pursue you, but you will be too timid to take advantage of their advances. At least one of the women who are angry about your inappropriate behavior will eventually fall for you.
Dublin, for example. There was a time a couple of generations ago, when Ireland was so depressed that a very large number of boys were absent from the scene. Either they had been sent off to the priesthood, or had emigrated to try to find work overseas. Which left a great imbalance, and it was not uncommon to see a boy out with two girls.
There is also the strange case of Paraguay in the 1860s, when they thought they could conquer Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia all at the same time. They lost. Not only did t hey lose the war, but they lost over 90 percent of the adult male population of Paraguay. It is said, probably with some truth, that today, every Paraguayan is descended from Argentine sailors on vessels that traded up the river into Paraguay after the war was over.
I saw an article on wolves and gender ratios, wolves tend to be monogamous but some researchers tried altering the gender ratios to see what would happen.
When the ratio of men to women is increased (more men, less women), the males become more monogamous. When the % of females increases, the males become less monogamous.
Supposedly in human cultures it is the same. When men are a smaller % of the genders, the men become less monogamous and less chivalrous. When women are a smaller % then the men become more monogamous and more chivalrous. In human cultures when men outnumber women, the women have sex earlier in the relationship and have more varied forms of sex for less investment from men. When women outnumber men, the women have sex later in the relationship, have more vanilla sex and hold off on sex until the men have invested in them (financially invested, invested their time and emotions, etc).
So one would assume in that situation the men would have no real loyalty to any one woman and would just sleep around. However, would that lead to the 25 women all organizing together to overpower and dominate the man? I do not know.
Well as a gay man that’s pretty much Hell on Earth for me. I’d be willing to to provide sperm for artificial insemination, but if I was expected do it the old fashioned way screw humanity I’m ending it.
Thing is though, if the man refused to have sex with the women who some of them I assume have high sex drives and a desire for children, would they use physical coercion (forcing themselves onto him) or blackmail (if you don’t have sex with me, I won’t give you food/water).
Although a good number of women may be considered as submissive and passive on a spectrum (reinforced by society and much less biological incentive for aggression compared to men), in any post-apocalyptic world, I have no doubts that they would ‘enslave’ the young man in order to achieve their ideals. After all, the first rule of biology is self-preservation and if three young women tying a man and forcing him to ejaculate fulfills that…well, :dubious: anything’s possible.
I’ve often thought of scenarios similar to the OP. But instead of thinking of it in the obvious male fantasy angle, I ponder it from a political and societal view.
For instance, what percentage of men would have to die off before women were the dominant force in both politics and commerce?
I would be especially interested in knowing how the paradigm would shift in countries where woman are repressed like Saudi Arabia or Iran.
No, I don’t think a group of smart knowledgeable women is going to turn into a rape gang first chance they get. They’re going to have more important things to worry about.
Is there a reason you’re making the 5’5" man so petite?
Anyway, it’s going to be a supply and demand scenario. Assuming at least 20+ women are heterosexual and want some amount of male-female sexual relations the parameters of the relationship will have to be negotiated. Assuming, per the OP he’s a tiny little 18 year old with few skills he’s effectively going to be a kept sperm bank until the babies get to be 16 or so and the women of all ages will have all the action they can handle with horny male teenagers servicing them and “daddy” will be put on the sidelines. Unless the 30 year old is hideous if shells willing to help feed and shelter the man there’s no reason why he would not be wiling to stick his penis in her in exchange for lifestyle goods. Young women do this all the time.
So he’s got about 15-16 years to enjoy himself until there’s more sausage in the house.
There was also an episode where the majority of the world’s men died as a result of biological warfare. Rembrandt and Arturo ended up in a forced breeding facility and Quinn ended up having to go to bed with a wealthy older women in exchange for her help freeing them. Also Australia was a superpower because it had a higher than normal male survival right.