ABSTRACT
The confirmed bachelor can be defined as the man who has the courage of his lack of convictions. Bachelor searches for the "true meaning" of love, whose true meaning is that it has no single true meaning. He is not a boy. He is not a child. It is no secret: one of his major problems is sex, and this fact fills a large part of his life and has obvious repercussions on the lives of all the people around him. A certain primitive variety of one-celled creature reproduces by what is called "binary fission"- by simply splitting in two. It requires no other, no mate. There appears to be nothing like sex needed. However, scientists notice under the microscope that a culture of these paramecia soon becomes "tired", "sluggish", and inactive, reproducing more and more slowly. If the creature does not occasionally swim up to another like it, it will finally slow down absolutely, disintegrate, die.
