For Bond fans, this persists despite - or perhaps because of - the arrival of a post-Aids environment in which the dangers of promiscuity are widely recognised.

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That Austrians explain good and bad times through the prism of inflation suggests austerity in outlook, but promiscuity in action whereby modern theorists redefine the meaning of a word.

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For many, the knee-jerk response has been to speak against women travelling alone, labelling it as shocking or unwise, especially in more conservative cultures where Western women travelling alone can face unjust stereotypes regarding promiscuity.

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Greater promiscuity in females does, indeed, lead to bigger testes, presumably because a male needs to make more sperm to have a fighting chance of fathering offspring, if those sperm are competing with sperm from a lot of other males.

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Jeanne Zeh and her colleagues, who published their results in the current edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, have shown that in a type of arthropod known as a pseudoscorpion, polyandrous females do, indeed, produce more offspring as a direct result of their promiscuity.

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