On 15 April 2014 06:43, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 4/14/2014 11:35 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:12 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 >
The meal afterwards isn't bad either. I know it's immoral, but, who can resist fried chicken, stuffed dog and fricasseed Woody Allen? Not me and the goat, that's for sure. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
