Women's Venom
Historical Notes:
The human body is very peculiar, different from other animals on the
planet in many ways. This is particularly true of the female human.
Females are one of the very few non-insect or reptilian species to come
equipped with a stinger. However, this stinger has very different
properties than others, which primarily use venom or the stinger itself
for defense. The woman's venom serves a very different evolutionary
function, reproduction.
Women's venom has the ability to affect stung males in making them
completely female for a period of time. It is believed that this original
purpose was during the early days of human history, to keep the human
population going. It is thought that this was for dire times in early
human history, such as rapid disease spread, droughts or crop failure,
and so on when it was likely many humans would die. While a woman takes
time to carry and give birth, this allowed the population of females to
expand greatly without the need for waiting for new babies to grow up.
Males, would then become female and could then reproduce more humans,
thus making it more likely humanity would survive.
Over time, this would lead to males having all the internal traits and
organs of women, such as eggs, ovaries, and so on. However, these traits
would not become active unless stung by a woman's venom. After stung, the
male will rapidly lose any male traits and shift to that of a fully
functioning female inside and outward. This is likely so in order to
attract males for reproduction. The change is not permanent however; it
depends on the potency of the venom itself. Younger females seem to have
longer lasting potency than older. This is likely to make sure that there
is never a true imbalance among genders.
Three particular oddities occur with regards to this change. The first is
pregnancy. With fossil records having an even split between males and
females, it is thought that after pregnancy the changed male will change
back, however that is not the case today, where pregnant males find
themselves female for the rest of their lives. The second is a slight
mental shift in changed males. The venom seems to have an adverse effect
on the male's mind, making them more open to sexual interaction with
other males. The cause is debated, but this is perhaps to get the changed
males to go along with the mating needed for humanity. Finally, is the
growing percentage of natural females without the stinger. Males changed
to females do not have a stinger, but with modern society, and no threat
to human extinction, an increasing number of women are born without the
venom of others. As many as 1% of females are born without the stinger
each year, and the number is gradually increasing... much to the delight of
men it would seem.
