On 15 April 2014 06:43, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/14/2014 11:35 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:12 PM, meekerdb <[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 >
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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
