the earthworm is a lucky beastie...

If memory serves me right, and I recall my zoology lessons accurately, the earthworm is a lucky beastie. I dissected the wretched things - all rubberised in formalin and laid out stiff under my scalpel - so I ought to remember.

The earthworm, you see, is a heamaphrodite.
Apparently so is the snail.
Now WHY were we - humans, the species that could have made use of it most - not given this amazing two in one offer?

Ok, so humans are not very savvy with giftings and nature - tend to mess the system big time. Ok, so lower the intelligence the less likely it will go pear shaped. Ok, so it can't be that much fun if you don't have the brain to appreciate it.

Still imagine the benefits!
- I wouldn't have to be afraid of a psychotic sex maniac trying to do me in - I could use my maleness and thrash the living daylights out of him.
- Women could, when required, travel around at night as a male unscathed, unraped, unmolested. Unafraid.
- One can read the dim recesses of the mind of a man much better - given that one already has half the mind of a man, and delve into the intricacies of worrying logical reasoning and BALANCE off all that with some good old intuition.
- Reproduction, child bearing, rearing, would have been a breeze.
- There would be no such thing as man flu!
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;) There ARE, of course, other benefits (as Leslie Durrell of Gerald Durrell "My family and Other Animals" fame pointed out bitterly when he discovered these details about the gender intricacies of the low-life). But I won't go into that.