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> the drive to have sex was synonymous with the drive to have children. that's not true! It's not even the main drive for many apes and monkeys… > The idea t

> the drive to have sex was synonymous with the drive to have children. 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

toasterlovin 9y ago
If the drive to have sex and the tremendous pleasure that results from it are not for making offspring, then how did they evolve?
- walterstucco 9y ago
  > 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.