Pan Chien-ming used to believe that Pingpu women might have many different men in the course of one life, "like animals, without any concept of purity." But now he puts a different gloss on things: "Doesn't the natural world use this method to increase the adaptability of gene pools and ensure the survival of species?"
潘謙銘以前認為，平埔女子一生中，可能擁有過好幾個男子，「像動物一樣沒有貞操觀念」；但他現在卻有另一種解讀：「自然界不就是用這種方式增加基因的變化，以維持種族的綿延不絕？」