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When Did Sex Become Fun? (2016)
- whovares 5y agoArticle is from 2016 and doesn't provide any evidence about the rise of sex for pleasure. Not worth your time.
- dynamic_sausage 5y agoThe article also claims sex is fun without any corroborating data. Highly suspicious!
- inglor_cz 5y agoI think that science demands a double-blind trial to test whether sex is fun or whether it is just a placebo effect :)
- dotancohen 5y agoEvidence is a hard word in paleontology. The article does discuss fossils which provide clues, which is as good as it gets for most of the field.
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- Ambolia 5y ago"Every generation thinks they invented sex"
- BitwiseFool 5y agoArticles like this are a somber reminder to me that the anatomy I was meant to have was cut off shortly after birth without my consent. Regardless of what the contemporary justifications are, the cutting of which I speak has, throughout history, been justified as pleasure reduction so that men focus more on God or to mark one as a slave. I rue and lament the fact that I miss out on having tissue that is a result of about 100 million years of evolution for reasons entirely out of my control. Edit: Yes, I have 'confronted' my parents about this and it was devastating to learn that they didn't think twice about what the procedure really entails and had no reason other than "that's what people do". For additional angst, my parents are staunchly against docking the ears of dogs for ethical reasons, asserting that the hygiene 'benefits' are insignificant and that it is wrong to do it because people think it looks better cosmetically.
- simooooo 5y ago
- edmcnulty101 5y agoThe medical establishment approves of it. Are we still trusting the experts?
- BitwiseFool 5y ago>"Are we still trusting the experts?" I am, but not on this.
- jjulius 5y agoBecause if you're wrong about one thing, you must be wrong about everything!
- throwaway48292 5y agoIt's especially bad because of the profit motive and needlessly doing it so young before consent can be given IMO. I can't accuse people in this position of not being sufficiently trusting.
- edmcnulty101 5y ago> It's especially bad because of the profit motive and needlessly doing it so young before consent can be given This applies to other modern medical procedures as well.
- edmcnulty101 5y agoHow often are the experts wrong though?
- netizen-936824 5y agoI think a better question might be: Are they really experts? Experts at what, exactly?
- jll29 5y agoI'm an AI professor but since the article doesn't say and we all wanted to know I had to do some digging... So those of you interested can read instead: Georgiadis, Kringelbach & Pfaus (2012) https://www.nature.com/articles/nrurol.2012.151 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrurol.2012.151 (Nature Reviews Urology volume 9, 486–498) Diamond 1997 http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/5510/1/146.pdf http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/5510/1/146.pd... (This seems to be an online version of an old book, not sure why it's hosted in Ethiopia?)
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- themaninthedark 5y agoArticle seems a little sexist to me, says that pleasure may have existed for male fish but not females and that it would have taken the development of fingers for females to experience pleasure. Then takes a swipe at male anthropologists. Would like to know if other hominids that have sex for pleasure can co satisfy of if further stimulation is required for females of other species. Edit: Seem to have struck a nerve with someone, here is what I see as sexist. 'So it’s the manual work, not the manhood’s, that’s topping off the pleasure in the female half of the species. I’ve never heard a paleontologist, most of whom are men, describe an ancient fossil finger as evidence for the dawn of pleasurable sex. Why do you suppose that is?' That is being supported by the previous paragraph that talks about how “human female orgasm during sexual intercourse is uncommon, in particular without additional clitoral stimulation; the orgasm is in fact more common during female masturbation or homosexual intercourse, than during actual heterosexual intercourse.” Which is fine but she uses the fact the human females don't experience pleasure and projects it back on fish with no support. 'Now, what about pleasure? In human terms, could Long’s model of ancient fish sex be the dawn of sex for fun? Sure. Why not? Well, at least for the male. In order for us to be more confident about the female, our ancient fishes would need to have (magically) evolved dexterous fingers—which didn’t actually evolve on Earth until many millions of years after these protopenises.'
- blastonico 5y agoFor me, sex started to become fun around 1998 - after my first time.
- hulitu 5y agoFor some people, never.
- 0xb 5y agoWhen human mind descended to materialism. This can only be realized through experience. One can read and "know" a lot about this topic but this knowledge can only be regurgitated.
- theodric 5y agoIt did? Bit of a chore from my perspective.