Darwin, May I Date While Waiting For My Divorce?

My esteemed correspondent:

You fail to note whether you are a man or a woman. While I understand that, in the world you inhabit, it is not done to suggest that an answer might turn on this mere incidental, we biologists must be made of sterner stuff. A woman's hope of fitness for survival must depend upon putting all of her eggs into, at best, a pitifully small number of baskets. The feminine strategy must be, alas, the more difficult "quality over quantity." If you are a woman, should not "date," if I understand your modern euphemism correctly, until after marriage.

If you are, on the other hand, male, then date away, my friend, date away. I will, in either event, remain,

Yours faithfully,

Chas. Darwin, Esq.