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Humans appear to have evolved for sex to be a social function as well as reproductive. It is pure speculation that it is for reproduction only. It is also the
by quantified 3y ago
Humans appear to have evolved for sex to be a social function as well as reproductive. It is pure speculation that it is for reproduction only.
It is also the case in animals for gender and sex to be separate. There was the manatee that had enough anal sex with another male manatee to kill it, recently. Birds regularly turn up as homosexual, like the swans in the Boston Garden. Male dogs will hump almost anything for a portion of their lives.
- lusus_naturae 3y ago> Humans appear to have evolved for sex to be a social function as well as reproductive. The context of social activity for any animal (or living thing that socializes) is sexual reproduction. How are you (or any reference you're using) delineating between social vs. reproductive function? Are you going to cite anecdotes of people who have sex for fun but don't want to reproduce? (These questions sound more combative than I want, fyi). Individual behavior, even at scale, doesn't have any bearing on evolution. Evolution requires population level effect on a large time scales. Also, there is no evolution without passing on traits, so any trait that doesn't result in offspring will not have pressures that evolve the organism exhibiting that trait.
- quantified 3y agoSocial activity is for sexual reproduction? In that case, what isn't for it? Social interactions easily lead to more offspring even if not directly related to reproduction. My providing hundreds of happy orgasms to my female mate definitely improves the chances I'll get to impregnate her. Supporting reproduction doesn't need to be direct every time.