I read a little miscellaneous bit of nothing in the Globe and Mail the other day. The title of the blurb was "Why we need sex". (I realise I sound like some kind of obsessed nympho since I'm so often writing about sex and correlated issues, so I should abstain this one time, but this was just too damn funny to pass on).
The bit of piffle referred to research which looked into why members of the Kingdom Animalia engage in sexual relations versus asexual reproduction. Indeed, according to a quote from Smithsonian Magazine, the act of sexual reproduction requires a great deal of energy to carry out, while it only allowes an individual the possibility of passing on half of its genes, as compared to cloning in which one hundred percent of an organism's genes are transferred.
The part that cracked me up was the following quote: "Scientists have long wondered why organisms bother".
Um hello? Have you guys been spending that much time in the lab that you don't know the answer to that question? I realise that this was meant within the context of energy expended as compared to the genetic output, but really!
Why do we bother to have sex? The answer list to that could be endless ... because we're trying to have a baby, because it's damn good fun, because we're horny, because we're bored, because the power is out and the T.V. doesn't work, because we're too broke or cheap to go out on a real date, because we're procrastinating on a work deadline and this seemed like more fun, because she wanted the old geezer to give her a pretty and expensive bauble and this seemed like a good way to get it, because this is a good way to destress, because we just fought and the make-up sex is the best, or just because it feels amazingly, awesomely good.
The real issue here is why would anyone even question the reasons for doing it? I mean, why look a gift horse in the mouth? Are scientists going to come up with a more efficient (and less pleasurable) way for us humans to reproduce?
I was curious if any of those genius scientists had done any research into why people bother to engage in oral or anal sex. Why does that physiological drive exist when it doesn't have anything to do with reproduction per se? I smell a doctoral thesis in there somewhere.
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I think you're dead on about the scientists spending too much time in the lab - lol.
Wow, that's pathetic.
Snooze: Since I come from a family of science geeks, I could really see how the scenario would transpire. "I'M not getting laid, so I wonder what the big deal is ... the other people must be stupid or something ..."
Dickey: Which part did you find pathetic? The fact that they had to question sex, or the fact that I felt compelled to write about it?
The fact that they questioned it. I totally understand and appreciate that you wrote about it.
If they get a bonus cheque for that research, I hope they spend it on a good prostitute.
That was a rather odd question. I'll look forward to your thesis! :p
Mister: Welcome. Of course, porn is an altogether other issue which I'm sure the academics will tackle next ...
Epicurist: Oh I won't be writing the thesis. I'm probably way too biased on the topic of sex as an extra-curricular activity. In university when I took Philosophy of Human Sexuality, I was told by the bonehead marking my paper (he was Catholic and very religious) that I was a hedonist.
Holy hot profile pic. Speaking of sex...
I was going to comment on that new pic.
Yummy.
LOL - they should ask gay men that question. I mean, we go to a lot of trouble to do it every chance we get (or so says the stereotype), And we don't even get to pass on our genes....
Dan, a few gay men have passed on my jeans.
;)
(sorry - couldn't resist!)
Snooze and Dickey: Thanks for the compliment. I didn't think it was that hot of a picture, but nice that everyone else does! :)
Dan: Exactly my point.
ROFL....my husband and I joke about this all the time! We can not believe people are not having more sex....not less. It's good exercise, fun and free!
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