Let’s imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don’t care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can’t resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.
How would this impact the civilisation ?
I know about David Brin’s *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.
We probably wouldn’t name them until they had reached a certain age
“Number 5 and Number 7 ate Number 3 last night.”
Missed opportunity there mate:
7 8 9
6 now lives in fear of his younger sibling.