Sexual Instinct and Other Problems

The only instinct a human is born with is the ability to suckle. Everything else is learned. Our two characters have reached sexual maturity. The girl is ovulating and the male is having wet dreams and spontaneous erections. So what do they do about it? At this point, they couldn’t have a clue about what goes where. There weren’t any other mammals on the island for guidance and ideas, although they did show the two turtles having sex. Joseph Heller addressed this in Catch 22 when the young married couple came to the doctor for help in getting the wife pregnant. The doctor discovered that the husband was putting it in the wrong orifice. Miraculously, our characters somehow discover intercourse in the “Missionary Position.” In most primitive cultures, intercourse was conducted from the rear like animals to the horror of the missionaries – hence the creation of the “Missionary Method.” Well she has the baby. What they do with the umbilical cord and afterbirth is not addressed. Fortunately, if nothing is done, the cord will dry up and fall off in three days. I guess that is what happened here although the movie did not deal with it. Then we have nursing the baby. The girl’s breasts would be hurting and milk leaking out. They might come up with the idea of nursing the baby but it happens accidentally in the movie.