Dear Editor,

The revelations made of so-called “locker room talk”, which featured Donald Trump’s sexual pursuits, has enlightened those among us who have scientific interests in human sexuality and the reactions to it from various segments of the society. Unfortunately, the vehement reactions to Trump’s failure in this regard have shown that our attitude to human sexuality is losing its bearing.

The hypocrisy was remarkable. Any man on this planet could have been caught executing plans similar to what Trump had, and reacting to rejection in similar fashion. Our continued existence depends on this basic heterosexual attraction, and it turns out that men are most often the sex given the task of pursuing it.

A woman who has a son and is looking forward to grandchildren might better understand these dynamics and, indeed, it has been anecdotally suggested that the sexuality of women bearing boy children is different from those bearing girls.

The criticism of the Trump tapes by US first lady, Michelle Obama, could be more greatly understood beyond party lines, based on such anecdotes. This debacle has also shown that women are less appreciative than ever before about this natural instinct of desire for sex, and its role in forming a natural unit of intimacy which should be the true basis of progeny. This could be partly attributed to the numerous other sexual preferences and sexual titles that now exist, and the ‘threat’ of technologically assisted fertilisation and pregnancies in bypassing the original way of doing it.

Generally speaking, though, Trump might be just a convenient scapegoat, the one to suffer for all those scumbags with whom the women are up in arms about. People won’t like you or want to be like you if they can’t be like you, and Trump is very rich, very popular, a front-runner for the US presidency, and gets away with saying the most contentious of things. Rejection of the desire for intimacy is embarrassing, especially for a man of such means, and with it being so publicised, but Trump does not need to apologise for it, and has been unfairly criticised to the extent that he has been thus far.

Andre O Sheppy

Norwood, St James

astrangely@outlook.com