I’d read somewhere years ago, that during the most virulent stages of infection, testosterone production spikes. Not sure where I would have read that, maybe here on FR.
Sounds pretty Machiavellian for a randomly mutated virus, kicking in the sex drive when infection is most likely to be passed on.
Must’ve been around a long time to have evolved such a survival strategy, if you could describe a virus as really “alive” in the sense of sentience, to survive in the first place.
“Must’ve been around a long time to have evolved such a survival strategy, if you could describe a virus as really “alive” in the sense of sentience, to survive in the first place.”
Well, in a sense, yes. For every year it was out there it got some huge multiple of mutation time due to the extreme coupling in the gay community -up to 200 partners a year comprised of a wide crossection of society. Such mutation is probably not possible in so short a time in a disease carried and passed on soley by animals.