A
mental illness present in 98% of
men. The disease is present at
birth but doesn't
manifest itself until the onset of
puberty, when large amounts of
testosterone (the main cause of the
affliction) are released into the
circulatory system. From then on it's effects are
chronic, although they may be slightly alleviated during
old age.
The
disease manifests itself as an extreme
neurosis in which the
male experiences an extreme longing to return to
his first home. This drive
competes with and sometimes overrides
instincts which ensure
survival. The
men, with certain,
rare exceptions, don't attempt to navigate the exact same
canal they used to enter the
world but, rather seek another one, (almost
any other one)making the
instinct somewhat similiar to the
house-scavenging of the
hermit crab. Although, unlike the hermit crab, the male
humans have outgrown the home they seek, and so,
inevitably fail every time, managing only to get a
couple fingers or a
phallus in the door, though it never discourages them.
Since the idea of a
man even trying to climb into their uteruses seems to frighten most
women, men don't get to
make the attempt as often as they'd like. (
Which, for most men, is all the time.)