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You should hear it sung. Very funny.

It also shows the downside to the "tomcat" male who wants to be profligate with his seed; chances are that while he is out messing around creating sons and daughters who will never know him, his own children will also not be his own (genetically).

Humans are mostly monogamous in pair bonds. The male's deviate from this norm by trying to be a "tomcat"; but with mixed results (as the song attests). For myself, I would rather raise one son or daughter with my culture, beliefs and values that would be my friend in life WITHOUT any of my genetics; than to have ten sons and ten daughters who who are mine genetically but don't know me from Adam and would want to kick my butt if they knew who I was. The females deviate from monogamous pair bonds with "crypto paternity"; where they rope a moderately successful male who WILL help them raise a child, while actually securing the "best" DNA for their child by siring it with a highly successful male who would probably NOT help them raise the child (probably has some of his own already).