My husband and I were talking about this last night... what is instinctual between men and women when all the surface stuff is taken away.

I am writing trying to write a post on this now but what do you think would happen if you were the last man or woman on earth?  And just to keep it interesting, let's say you don't particularly like the person you are stuck their with.

What are you going to do?

Have sex with him, probably!

If I were the last woman on earth stuck with the last man on earth and I didn't particularly like him, I'd probably try to survive and all, but I don't think I'd breed.

And not because I don't like the guy.  I wouldn't breed because I'd be concerned with the future of mankind all being inbred (Genesis always bothered me).  If I knew there was another couple like 1000 miles away and thought our children could someday meet if they tried hard enough, I'd take one for the team.

Oh, I would just do it out of horniness/boredom.

I've spent years being celibate, and I'm used to being alone - if I didn't like let alone fancy 'the last man on earth' I'd make myself scare pdq! I find it very stressful indeed to be around people I don't like: it's as if someone's scraping on an exposed nerve

I think we would warm up to each other eventually. When you're the last people on earth, you don't really have any choice. Unless you would prefer to be completely and utterly alone. I can't imagine a world with no one else.

If I don't like him I say we each take a side of the planet. I'd prefer to go solo for a while. If we run into each other again and I like him the second time around, so be it.

I suppose I'd give in eventually. I might be so bored I might challenge myself to repopulate the whole earth.

LOL Caroline! Screw repopulating!

Even if he annoyed me, I'd keep him around to do stuff I don't want to do.  For instance, I don't think I'd want to clean up bodies.  But if he wants to clean up bodies and I can make dinner, I'm cool with that.  I can handle the companionship part.  I imagine we'd be so busy doing things to survive that we wouldn't see each other much anyway.

Well.... if she was older than me , mankind is over (but I'd try my best to reduce that chance).

If she was under 16yrs.... obviously I'd have to wait. Probably until she's 25+ to start the family (let her enjoy a few care-free years).

But.... I suppose it would doom us if we were different races. Somehow I think I would rebel at the thought of having a mix breed kids.

You'd have to depend on each other, undoubtedly- surprised this wasn't the obvious, unanimous response!!

Interesting that people think they are self-sufficient. Nobody is!

Mix breed kids?? Wonder if there is anyone "clean" are we not all mutts?? we are all the same.

I would feel obliged to breed ,but offcourse if we breed a only child and there is no one else , thats kinda mean...and if they are supposed to mate with a sibling and then again next generations the same...crippled with disease for every step...eh I don't know. 

LOL, Glenn ::shakes head::

Well Iathina....  I was just admitting something that most likely is a Personal problem.

Would I really be that concerned then? Dunno.... but it is a probability. Would my male energies "urge to merge" dominate the rational side?? Dunno.

What I do know is that I will have to address them.... try to walk the fine line between being dominating and encouraging (there's a better word , but can't think of it).

Compromising?

The human race would die off.

My husband said he would be getting laid. "Otherwise, she'd better stay away from me.  Just 'cause you can't catch a deer, whatcha doin' bothering me?"

I think he lives in reality... :)

::ducks::

I hold that it is very important that people know that people like, Glenn exist. I mean, not knowing this does you no good. :)

It's true, Elsa. I need to make sure I become stuck with someone else!! 

Re-populating the earth with our offspring---brothers and sisters pairing?????? Not appealing to me.

Hmmm.... perhaps , Caroline.

Domineering suggests:  selfishness , total control , taskmaster , uncaring.

I was thinking more along Leadership (positive side of Domineering).

sex. what else is there to do? you get the damn food, i'll do the damn cooking. then we fuck. clear. oh YOU do the laundry LOL. unless we work out some other deal.

Well, we wouldn't be re-populating. That's for sure cuz I've been fixed.

I'd attempt to get along with him..for resource purposes. But if that didn't work out I'd be thinking of ways to kill him off so I could eat him before he ate me. You know, play nice..catch him asleep..big boulder upside the head kinda thing.

Yeah, I don't see there being any chance of actually being able to propagate mankind.

Some new breed of human that is combined with an animal? Maybe...

I would let him try to get me preggy but I would secretly keep taking the pill so he would have to keep trying.  YAY! 

I love this thread :)

josi!!!! no!!!! yopu NEED sex. maybe you don't think so in the heat of the eating moment... but you WILLLLLLLL. OMG. do NOT kill him.

I would run away. Thats just another way of saying that I was in a committed relationship or at least trying to tie me down.

::screaming out the door::

@ Glenn. i like to be domineered. :)

I'll change the diapers (not completely different than cleaning animal pens).... you feed / burp the kids.

Housework probably will be mostly hers.... assuming I'm doing the farming / hunting. If she's the expert hunter.... then I guess I found "Zena the warrior princess".

:::wonders if any more of her Amazonian sisters survived::::

Michele,

I don't blame you.  I like a dominate man too!

If I didn't particularly like the person, I'd simply say--"It's a big planet, you go that way and I'll go this way.  Have a nice life!" 

no nutsy. you don't get it it!!!! it's you and it's her. are you going to masturbate for the rest of your life????

I doubt there would be any, "I don't like him(her)" crap. At least at the beginning, you would be in animal survival mode and you would do anything/get along with anyone in order to continue living.

i can shoot.

oh my fucking god. worst day of my freaking life and i am laughing my ass off.

y'all redefine the beautiful.

Michele, i didn't say I'd devour his penis. I'd keep it hanging around..maybe stuff it and dry it out. I don't NEED HIM to have sex :)

Oh y'all slay me.

I'm with the Rhino on this one.

But I think MagicMark has the best answer EVER!

Hahahahahaha

Read Lucy Irvine's 'Castaway'. To all intents and purposes, she and her male companion (who also wrote a book) WERE the last people on earth...

He went to pieces, she took over the survival duties. She wrote that very quickly, every assumption you had made about how it would be, how it would pan out, was proved totally wrong. And sex very quickly became the last thing on your mind. You fast became rivals in a sense, co-operation proving all but impossible under the pressure of survival

I know I'd run, unless the 'last man' was one I was already involved with. I don't think I'd have trouble surviving on my own - I'd soon find a dog to hunt for me - nor being happy with my own company: it would be better than fearing subjugation by 'the other'.

I would probably feel differently if I were young; but even then I'd feel no impulse to re-populate the planet. Man has been a disaster for the Gaia!

see I think we're forgetting how radically changed both remaining people would be.  Wouldn't it be a complete and utter mind-fuck that you are the last two people on this earth?  Seriously.  That would not be easy to digest and sheesh, I'd change!  So who knows, maybe I wouldn't be worried about the continuation of the species?  maybe I'd just be worried about getting laid?  No idea!

and heck Glenn's ideas may change too! Who knows!

that's why i said i'd do the"female" jobs. i never say that! plus i CAN shoot. so we'd have to work out the laundry business. i prefer being on the land.