Re:Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
by toasterlovin on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:53PM
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If the drive to have sex and the tremendous pleasure that results from it are not for making offspring, then how did they evolve?
Re:Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
by walterstucco on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:18AM
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> then how did they evolve?
Easy: being on top of the food chain allowed us to evolve our relations beyond having an offspring
Those having more satisfactory relations formed groups that we now call families up to the point where sex today is mostly recreational
basically pleasurable sex gave us mate choice just like a bird chose the best dancer or a lioness the stronger male
pleasure instead of strength in the long run made happiness a goal in our modern societies instead of simply domination
we don't have sex just in some period of the year
we enjoy sex just like we enjoy eating or having fun
For a cat or a dog sex is not pleasurable, it's just a relief from heat, but we call it rape.
that's not true!
It's not even the main drive for many apes and monkeys…
> The idea that complex behavior can be caused by genes in animals, but somehow not in humans is incorrect
But I didn't say that
I said we are not those animals and don't live by the same rules
The complex behaviour of catching a mouse in a cat is genetic
Should humans behave the same when they see a mouse?
> I grew up in a culture that did not value having children.
Oh that's even more powerful
Youth rebellion
Do exactly the opposite that your parents and people around you are doing
> And the argument that poor people have lots of children for financial reasons doesn’t hold up any more
It does now more than ever
Now that globalization is taking a lot of poor countries out of poverty
Just watch Hans Rosling's talks