But now, days or weeks, she and I would be moving to another level another plateau where things are were far less certain. Pippa was going to let Richard take the next really big step by doing as before but this time there would be no barrier and he would be making her pregnant and she would then in nine months time, have his baby. Almost every time he stepped up and entered Pippa that potential fact had crossed my mind and I had fantasised about it.
Within society as it stands today, I would be denigrated for doing this but I have hear women talking at a party where they were discussing a couple where the husband for whatever the reason could not make his wife pregnant. So wanted a family so according to what they said a male friend or relative stepped in and 'fixed' her for him and that was apparently quite all right. The conversation certainly made no mention of IVF so I think that the method of conception used was he standard one with a lot of ups and downs.
Then there is the widely accepted issue of what is termed female predatory sperm selection. Women do choose with whom they breed. They look for the best male sperm to fertilise their eggs. Most do this anyway but just keep quiet about it and deliberately deceive their partners.
Was I therefore doing anything other than letting Pippa choose for herself and was it wrong of me to do so or would it have been right of me to stop her.
Then I thought of Richard and his part in this deed. To date he had the benefit of having a much younger woman, my wife, available to him for pure sex. All he had to do was to ensure that she had a good time and therefore he'd be allowed back for more. If he didn't or she no longer enjoyed it she could simply close her legs and say no. Did that matter to him anyway? He had no emotional or financial stake in it. He had no real financial stake in breeding her, however the fact that she would breed for him in evolutionary theory would oblige him to be involved emotionally and require him to protect and nurture his off spring.
What of Pippa in all this, she was at least doing this honestly and openly. Whatever her motivation, she wasn't being dishonest with anyone or doing anything behind any ones back.
You could argue that in choosing to have to lovers Pippa was doubling her chances of breeding, that breeding being fruitful and her offspring being brought up. I wonder whether in those situations where humans have lived in hostile and inhospitable regions, whether that is the rule that has been applied out of pure necessity. In disaster films where most of the population has been wiped out that the convention of 'one man one woman' is thrown out of the window as soon as the disaster is over.
Perhaps what I thought was correct, perhaps I was trying to justify the matter to myself.