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Re: Terms and Conditions Question
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 10 May 1999 19:58:49 GMT
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote in message
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> I disagree. Complex animals (people included) use sex for feeling • good.
> I would say that people may be the only animal to actually use sex • for
> procreation. I really don't know what animals engage in homosexual
> behavior, aside from humans of course, but I assume that any animal
> (let's stick to mamals for more certainty) would do so if it gave • them
> the 'right' kind of pleasure. You seem to asert that sex for
> procreation is the result of lower-order thinking and that sex for
> pleasure is a result of higher-order thinking. That's backwards.
It's not backwards, it's instinct. If there is any pleasure, it's an
evolutionary motivator to encourage reproduction.
Jesse
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| (...) I disagree. Complex animals (people included) use sex for feeling good. I would say that people may be the only animal to actually use sex for procreation. I really don't know what animals engage in homosexual behavior, aside from humans of (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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