What you speak of is a superstition that is often used in an attempt to justify the prejudice against promiscuity in women; and it has not the slightest to do with the article you linked, which I quote:
In the fly Telostylinus angusticollis...
If you consider the way in which flies reproduce, it's immediately obvious that the females have a lot of control over whether or not to use the sperm that is deposited. It can survive for up to three weeks, so they can take plenty of time to decide whether or not to lay any eggs and fertilise them in the process.
For mammals, including humans, reproduction works very differently. In this modern age, surgeons, doctors and genetic researchers have all but completely understood the inner workings of the human body, and have even found means to master it and cure all manner of illness; and yet to this day, there's still not a single documented biological process through which it would even be possible for the human body to do what you describe. Thus, to reiterate more clearly: what you speak of is baseless superstition, and false.
In 2017, this notion was further popularised by several articles on clickbait websites. Quoth one of the articles:
Sperm is alive. It is living cells. When it is injected into you it swims and swims until it crashes headlong into a wall, and then it attaches and burrows into your flesh. If it’s in your mouth it swims and climbs into your nasal passages, inner ear, and behind your eyes. Then it digs in. It enters your blood stream and collects in your brain and spine.
The inspiration behind this ludicrous claim was a study that detected some cells with a Y chromosome in the brains of 60% of elderly women and 20% of younger women. A common explanation for that finding is that cells are sometimes exchanged through the placenta during pregnancy, and may remain after separation, which explains the presence of male DNA if a woman has been pregnant with male offspring before (even if it was a miscarriage).
But as you can see, they threw common sense out of the window completely when writing the article. For starters, sperm does not have the capability to burrow, and there is also no known mechanism through which male-female microchimerism in the brain could affect the DNA of a woman's future egg cells. But for people who already had such superstitions in the first place, seeing the article must've felt like a sign that their beliefs had been Scientifically proven. And now again, you see this study about flies, and immediately go along the lines of: "Oh look it's true! If your wife isn't a virgin, then if you impregnate her you're actually raising someone else's kids!" But that's not what the study says. That's just what you
feel, right?
I completely understand that people will tend to trust their intuition when participating in an environment that encourages Spirituality, but please refrain from misappropriating Science to support your delusions. That is not necessarily towards you specifically, but also in general.
I don't judge people for trusting in their gut feeling, as it can often be a valuable defence mechanism against manipulation and deceit. But when people don't admit they are just speculating and attempt to frame an obvious falsehood as an objective Truth by misinterpreting Scientific findings, it rather irritates me for some reason. Perhaps it's their (your) complete disregard and disrespect for the very arguments they (you) use. Why did you link a study that you didn't even take seriously enough to at the very least read the
abstract of? This is the Scientific work of others that you have misappropriated and put in a bad light. Please reflect on that.
Woodlandman said:
What's wrong with women only wanting have sex with their husband?
Many women prefer committed relationships. Of course there's nothing wrong with it. Let people do what they want. If you prefer a partner with no previous experience, that is also your freedom. I also feel uncomfortable when people speak positively of things such as casual sex or orgies, but nonetheless I recognise that just as I am free to merge deeply with one person and don't have to be interested in anyone else, others are free to do what makes them the happiest as well, and neither preference is inherently inferior to the other; it's only about what best suits the individuals involved and their needs.
Regardless, I hope you reflect on this nonsensical behaviour and learn from it, so that you can become a more nuanced person. I believe nuance is important in all things.
I forgot the password to my main account, and the computer I have it stored on is temporarily unavailable. The password reset functionality currently isn't working, but I couldn't stop thinking all day about how ridiculous it was that you brought a study about a species of flies into this, so I made this account just to tell you.