Lost in the deluge of fertility discourse is the simple fact that the default state of the female is resistance. Because she is burdened with the costly large gamete, the female has no sense of duty towards reproduction and instead has the opposite: a steadfast obstinacy against it. There are no charts and graphs that will inspire surrender. The difficult task of drawing fertility from the stubborn female is a primordial struggle waged not on the mind or heart but the amygdala. But the male weapons which were developed for this millennia-old war are in a sorry state. In our enlightenment, we sought to bring equality between the sexes, and this required costly engineering. The social contract was rewritten and the legal codes reformed. Now, the male goes out in search of a mate without his weapons of war. His plumage has been plucked, his talons clipped, and his fangs dulled. And what of the female? Not only is she as obstinate as ever, but she has the surgeon's hooks trained at her womb and the State's army aimed at her would-be suitor. The price of equality will be extinction and no number of charts and graphs will change this.