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From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
Summary: Sexual desire was the important factor in procreation.
Message-ID: <10615@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 16:54:50 GMT
References: <1990Jul23.022511.28161@mtcchi.uucp> <11095@netcom.UUCP>
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In article <1990Jul27.180834.6875@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA 
>> Seeing as how there would be no heredity to speak of WITHOUT 
>> the aforementioned [sexual] desire, I would think this rather, 
>> ahem, conclusive.

In article <11095@netcom.UUCP>, jfh@netcom.UUCP (Jack Hamilton) writes:
> You're confusing two different desires, that to have children and 
> that to have sex with someone of the other sex. ...

Mr Hamilton is confusing the practicalities of today with the
realities that shaped human evolution.  Throughout most of the
human past, the desire to have children did not mean diddly
squat.  People copulated for desire or social reason, and lo and
behold the kids came along.  Planning births or avoiding it was
not really a factor.  Indeed, there is good reason to think that
early humans did not even know the connection between sex and
pregnancy.  

Russell