Let’s imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don’t care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can’t resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.

How would this impact the civilisation ?

I know about David Brin’s *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.

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unless mating season was like, autumn

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They would have rescheduled for that.

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Oktoberfest it is, then.

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Still hosted by MTV’s Dan Cortese.

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