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From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: alt.sex
Subject: Re: Sex, Babies, and Orgasm
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Date: 19 Jan 90 20:33:13 GMT
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From article <695@banyan.UUCP>, by gil@banyan.UUCP (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan):
> Haven't you been listening ?  If sex was fun just for reproduction it
> would only be fun _once_ _a_ _month_ !! Women would come into heat once
> a month, it would be obvious to everybody that they were in heat (their
> faces might light up neon-pink and green), and that's the _only_ time
> they'd be interested.

Ever consider the possibility that it's better to be in heat all the time?
Maybe we're just a little more advanced than your average mammal in that
department. (Maybe not, but estrus doesn't explain how the purpose of
sex is fun.)

> Sex is fun _all_ _the_ _time_ 'cause it helps hold humans together,

Oh, please. Why do people have to rationalize sex this way? Sex is fun.
You don't have to justify it, it's just fun. Romanticism has no place in it.
(Which is not to say that sex + love isn't greater than the sum of its parts.)

> which if you consider how physically helpless a single human being is
> (compared to wild dog or something), is necessary for our survival.

We're not physically helpless. We're at the top of the food chain.
We're smart, or we think we are. What's this worry about survival?

> And who says fun isn't usefull for evolution?
> Without [fun] it is doubtfull wether we would have ever learned to use
> tools or improve upon the tools we have. "Fun" has undoubtedly taken our
> species a lot further than "seriousness" ever will.

OK, in terms of social evolution, you're right. But you haven't said
how fucking is in the best interests of our physical evolution. And that's
what I think most of us are talking about when we say "evolution."

> So think of the human race, lighten up!

What?
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