> , click-bait or not, did you read the article? using 'coping mechanism' in the headline reads like an intentional joke, subverting its audience's expectation

> , click-bait or not, did you read the article? using 'coping mechanism' in the headline reads like an intentional joke, subverting its audience's expectations replace coping with regenerative or restructural or restorative and you have a clearer take on the article the authors argument is a biological one about the benefits of sex, versus asexual reproduction, encouraging and repairing mutations on a cellular level the idea of it applying to the entire organism is only slightly touched on in the last few sentences, again, as a seemingly mocking jab at the notion of sex being a psychological 'coping mechanism' to the effect, 'you're right it is a coping mechanism, sex copes well with evolution's affinity for variety quite well' that said, to directly address your dehumanisation: sex is a coping mechanism and it is expression of self, and it is physical form of progeny creation, and it is a social construct, and a whole lot more to a whole lot of different people for different reasons denying that sex helps some humans cope with other issues seems rather dehumanising to those people but again, this is just addressing your comment, the article is about something completely different