"But I am sure the ladies feel the same way we do"
Biological reproductive impulse says they don't. I'm sure there's some psychological pressures for some women-- particularly survivors of sexual trama-- to seek out situations that allow them to relive/seek out intense sexual experiences in a controlled, safe way that the women can "master." However, I doubt most women have the same drive to experience a threesome (or moresome) that men do.
Men have a natural impulse to spred their genes as much as they can, but there are also very strong social pressures for them to "be a man" and take care of their partner, etc. These pressures are good because they convince us to support the women that can/are raising our children. The only "problem" is that the pressures are counter to our impulse to spred our genes, hence, some men will cheat. The "threesome" with multiple women creates a contolled atmosphere wherein the men have an opportunity to spred their genes further (or at least act like they are) with minimized consequences for doing so. If a man wants a threesome with his wife/girlfriend and another woman, it's so he can act on this impulse to spred his seed. It almost doesn't matter who the second female is (mild attraction is generally necessary to cause an erection, of course).
Women, on the other hand, have a natural impulse to find the most fit partner for reproducing with. Their judgement can be impaired, but that's the basic instinct. When women cheat, it's not because they have an impulse to do so in the same way that men do-- it's because they're "trading up" or sabotaging the current relationship so they have an excuse to leave their current man. For example: there's the classic cliche of a woman marrying a financially secure partner and seeking out an affair in order to (consciously or not) impregnate herself with a stronger gene donor, then having the financially secure partner raise her child. If a woman wants a threesome with her husband/boy friend and another man, the chances are good she's either acting out to master a sexual trama (in which case the quality of the third person is not critically important), or she's attempting to "trade up" without the social guilt of lying to her current-- already deemed adequate-- partner (in which case the quality of the third person is very important).
Besides the whole "it's half gay" stigma associated with 2M, 1F threesomes, men should naturally mistrust such an experience because there's a possibility that his partner will become impregnated with the rogue male's child. And when that happens, the legitimate partner will be expending resources on a child that is not his own. Women can have a similar mistrust of 2F, 1M threesomes because there's a chance that their male's resources will be diverted from her to another female's child, which, depending on the means of her partner, could be bad for the current or future care of her child. However, I think because of the dynamics of sexuality (a female can only become pregnant, at maximum, once every 9-10 months, whereas a male can potentially impregnate thousands of women in the same time-span), men are given more biological incentive to avoid situations in which their chosen partner is at risk of becoming impregnated by another man.
Therefore, "it's just not natural" for men to participate in their wife/girlfriend's infidelity with another man. And depending on a male's means, or the female's ability to "trade up" in the case of an accidental impregnation (that could absorb the male's means), it's may not be tolerable for a woman to participate in their husband/boyfriend's infidelity. However, it's my opinion that 2F/1M threesomes are more biologically acceptable to a couple than 2M/1F threesomes.
That, and there's more women on the planet than men, which is clearly God telling us it's okay to have 2F/1M threesomes.
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Seriously though, I'd never have a 2M/1F threesome because I wouldn't be into the dude. For similar reasons, I might do a 2F/1M threesome if everyone involved was into it-- if I got the impression one of the girls wasn't into the other girl being there, I might call off the whole thing. Can't say for sure, though, until I find myself in a situation where the threesome actually goes beyond talk.
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