Named after a president, this biological phenomenon is particularly silly:
A male rat will mate with a receptive female until exhaustion at which point he will fail to respond to her flirtatious ear wiggling and genital nuzzling. Upon the introduction of a new female, the male will become active once more and continue copulating with the new female. This cycle will repeat with each new female rat.
Let's re-phrase: based on exhaustive research in several mammalian species, males are have proven to become stifled... bored... and emotionally uninvolved after a period of time with a clingy irritating female partner making their sexual performance sub-par and disappointing to both parties, however, if males start mating with a new female, their hedonistic instincts return making them pleasure gods. Needless to say, the implications of this research are astounding [but also leave me asking, why just males?]...
If your relationship continues to fail despite copious amounts of red wine, succulent oysters, creamy dark chocolate and everlasting walks on the beach, why not try the aphrodisiac proven to work on our most basic primal instincts: novelty. People seem to forget divorce rates are also on the rise because humans no longer die of TB at 30 and thus, must continue mating with one "rat" for 75 years. Is the animal kingdom attempting to demystify this issue for us? Should we simply abandon our spouses for a newer model and begin frolicking in the rat burrows again?
perhaps. just perhaps.
rat holding an oyster. not really sure how to draw an oyster. also, I keep typing oyester.
The story behind the name...
While the President and First Lady were touring a farm, a farmer introduced the Mrs. to a particular rooster that could mate all day every day. She provocatively suggested that the farmer tell her husband.
Later on the Mr. was introduced to the same rooster...he stood lost in thought and asked "with the same hen?".
"No sir" responded the farmer.
"Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge".
