On 4/14/2014 11:35 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:12 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 4/14/2014 4:51 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
3) You assume that going against your simple reproductive program
will cause
suffering
This is a weird assumption. Consider this: you cannot decide to stop
breathing. Your brain literally won't let you. So evolution did not
select
breathing to be an optional behaviour. But it did select breading
to be an
optional behaviour. Otherwise there would be a whole lot more rape,
just
like in most of the animal kingdom.
You are right of course that the human evolutionary 'program' is
different from
that of almost all mammmals. But if it were like other mammmals there
wouldn't
be more rape. There is seldom rape among mammals because the female
becomes
receptive when she ovulates and readily accepts males and otherwise she
is not
sexually attractive to the males. Humans and bonobos are unusual among
mammals
in that females are sexually receptive even when not ovulating. This is
probably an evolutionary adaptation to achieve couple bonding which is
useful in
raising a child that takes many years to become self-sufficient. I
recommend
the book by Jared Diamond "Why is Sex Fun?".
You are right, of course. I got too carried away in that hyperbole.
Added your recommendation to my reading list.
Bonobos are very interesting, I've read before about how they display many
of the
sexual behaviours that are considered "unnatural" or "deviant" by our
religious friends.
That's why we keep 'em out of zoos. Protect the children from these deviant freaks of
nature unholy! :-) PGC
Sex between a man and a woman is a beautiful thing. But between a man and a woman and a
dog, a goat, and two chickens it's fantastic!
--- Woody Allen
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