... an old joke about Calvin Coolidge when he was President ... The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, "Dozens of times each day." Mrs. Coolidge said, "Tell that to the President when he comes by." Upon being told, President asked, "Same hen every time?" The reply was, "Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time." President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
A New Look at Love, by Elaine Hatfield and G. William Walster
In an experiment published in 1959, zoologist Hilda Bruce housed pregnant mice with male mice that were not the father of the carried embryo. As a result, the rate of miscarriages increased, followed by mating with the new male. No increased rate of miscarriages occurred when pregnant mice were paired with castrated or juvenile male mice.
The Bruce effect
I learned about the Coolidge Effect in a biology class in college and it set me thinking that if it would work for a male it could also work for a female. A couple of hours in the library showed me that not only was it documented to help females rise to greater sexual heights, a related effect was documented to solve the problem of being pregnant in some species.
I left the library significantly more educated and with a very wet gusset in my knickers. I was also trying to work out how I could use the effect to my own benefit.
While American universities might be full of sororities, where committees arranged gangbangs and orgies in bizarre initiation rituals, British universities tended to have subject-based societies. I was already a member of the Fireworks Society, the Chess Club, and the Rugby Society but there wasn't an Orgy Society and it was very unlikely that the Student Union would agree to finance one for a number of very good reasons.
I had a boyfriend, of course, and he was good company and even quite good in bed, but I wasn't at all sure that he'd be in to this sort of thing. And if he was, there was always the worry that he'd not be happy with me hooking up with lots of extra men. I pondered on the problem as I walked home in the rain and decided to ask him to help me phrase some of the more delicate parts of my essay. I'd watch his reaction and proceed from there.
That evening I set out my research materials and drafted 2,500 words on how sexual response could increase dopamine levels in mammals and trigger mating behaviours. I cited research on humans extensively. My boyfriend, Angelo, helped me word some of the more delicate parts of the text so that they were scientifically accurate without being erotically charged.
I didn't wear knickers to bed and Aneglo knew he was on a promise.
"It would be great if we could increase our own response, eh? We could have some fantastic weekends!" he exclaimed as I ran my tongue over the top of his foreskin.
"Oh, so you wouldn't mind me mating with lots of males as long as you get to mate with lots of females?" I asked. "Think you'd be able to get it up five or even six times a night, as if you were still a teenager?"
"I wasn't even thinking about me going with other women. I was just thinking about how exciting it would be to see you writhing on fresh cock after fresh cock."