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Up Front: Just Like Unicorns, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
I find it interesting that many women find our libidos match up neatly with our fertility – As if nature was quite invested in getting us knocked up
Welllll...but also the sudden horniness just before menstruation, when conception is impossible?
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Up Front: Just Like Unicorns, in reply to Bart Janssen,
(seriously some of that stuff is just so wrong :)).
Quite a few animals have sex within families and also forcible sex. A lot of nature’s not pretty.
Those who want to read more (and there is a lot more!) might like to read Bruce Bagemihil’s Biological Exuberance .
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Up Front: Just Like Unicorns, in reply to George Darroch,
For millions of years, things that made humans and pre-humans feel like they’ve had sex had a pretty high chance of creating a pregnancy and thus new human. Pleasure wasn’t guaranteed to give you a child, but that was its biological purpose.
George I agree that the impact of reliable contraception (and also of understanding the mechanics of conception) has made for enormous and complex social changes.
But I just don't buy the "ancient-sex-was-procreation" thing. Most sex anywhere in the animal kingdom does not lead to conception, and often cannot lead to conception . Homosexuality, auto-eroticism, group sex, manual and oral stimulation (plus stuff done with fins!) is all over the natural world. The pretence that sex is "naturally" about conception is just another myth.
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Up Front: Just Like Unicorns, in reply to Ianmac,
Of course the Hebrew meaning of virgin was just to mean "a good woman."
Actually, a virgin was an unmarried woman.
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Wow, love Local H's take on Team!
Also love anything Eno does, obvs. Hadn't heard that one before though Russell. -
Capture: Getting closer, in reply to Jos,
a fat visitor in the birch tree this afternoon
A series just waiting for the Warhol treatment?
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Capture: Getting closer, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Another flower that looks like a scary alien up close.
What magnificent irises!
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constantly being an unpaid teacher about disability is draining
This, so much.
Great post, thanks Sacha. -
Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Taking pleasure in causing people to leave a previously productive discussion is pretty disgusting behaviour and not something I am happy to see here. Sigh.
+1
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Seriously. Also. And obviously.
Sorry.