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In biology, the term Coolidge effect describes the re-arousal of a male animal by the introduction of a new female.
The term comes from an old joke according to which President Calvin Coolidge and his wife visited a government farm one day and were taken around on separate tours. Mrs. Coolidge, passing the chicken pens, inquired of a supervisor whether the roosters copulated more than once a day.
"Yes," the man said. "Dozens of times." "Tell that," Mrs. Coolidge replied, "to the president!"
Some time later the president, passing the same pens, was told about the roosters - and about his wife's remark. "Same hen every time?" he asked. "Oh, no, a different one each time," the supervisor replied. "Tell that," Coolidge said with a sly nod, "to Mrs. Coolidge."
He read to me, from a book on sexual evolution, about 'Coolidge's effect.' Such is the name applied to the observation that a bull refuses to mount the same cow more than a few times in succesion. There is no way to cheat the stud: it has to be offered a new cow if it is to continue. The peculiar appellative is based on an anecdote about President Coolidge, who had been visiting a farm with his wife and he chuckled upon hearing that information. When arriving at the chicken coop, his wife asked if roosters are also active only a few times a day. She chuckled when the man in charge answered, "No, ma'am, many times." At this point her husband asked if it was with the same chicken. Mr. Coolidge chuckled a second time when the answer was, "No, sir, always with a different one." (Let me tell you that I don't find that funny at all!)
The author of the book endeavored to explain why the human male tends toward promiscuity and polygamy. The so-called 'Coolidge's effect' of the animal kingdom he pretends to be a paradigm, his contention being that--for the preservation of the species--one pugnacious male inseminating several females makes a contribution, while there is nothing to be gained and much to be lost by female promiscuity. Although I found those arguments cogent, I couldn't agree with their tendenciousness. Nor did I like Jake's observation that although the author had a point there, he also had his own one, which was as follows.
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