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Jono
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10 Nov 2009, 11:56 am

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I've never read a satisfactory evolutionary explanation of female sexual pleasure.

There seems to be huge reluctance to admit that for the majority of women, the greatest, if not the only sexual pleasure, comes from non-reproductive stimulation. The various convoluted arguments I've heard to 'prove' that this is nevertheless some kind of adaptation to a reproductive end don't seem logical. (They sound, in fact, a lot like guys attempting to suggest that the kind of sex they find most fun is the only 'proper' kind.)


Because men can do the raping.

Basically, it doesn't matter whether or not the woman enjoys it because she can be raped by a man, that is why it is more important for a man to enjoy sex because he has the sticky out bit not the hole.

Also, this is just evidence that women don't need to enjoy sex that much for there to be survival of our species.

If they did, we just wouldn't be here.


That's not a satisfactory explanation. It doesn't explain why there is female sexual pleasure.



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17 Nov 2009, 1:42 pm

Jono wrote:
That's not a satisfactory explanation. It doesn't explain why there is female sexual pleasure.
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Sex isn't just for reproduction, it's also for social bonding. Female esxual pleasure most likely has to do with emotional bonding.


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17 Nov 2009, 2:09 pm

Really?

There were times when I enjoyed sex without the emotional bonding.


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17 Nov 2009, 8:19 pm

willa wrote:
To kind of compare here, when talking genetic ancestors, we compare humans to apes, which we are generally believed to be about 4-5 million years separated. When talking birds to dinosaurs, you're talking 65 million years separated.

Well, Homo sapiens sapiens is a species of great ape. Birds are technically in the same clade as dinosaurs.



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18 Nov 2009, 2:32 pm

ChrisHitchens wrote:
Jono wrote:
That's not a satisfactory explanation. It doesn't explain why there is female sexual pleasure.
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Sex isn't just for reproduction, it's also for social bonding. Female esxual pleasure most likely has to do with emotional bonding.


I know. I think I said so much earlier on in the thread. I suppose it could also be a lot of fun too. I haven't tried it though.