... The ones who are complaining seem to be from the priviliged few; their examples are countries where females are in a mess; and as a result, they demand...
... Do you mean men write articles in GQ complaining about why their wives are so slow? ... Is that because they are convinced it is the male problem and that...
Does circumcision harm your sex life? 26 April 2007 From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. Does circumcision harm your sex life?...
At some time in the distant evolutionary past, some females selected for reduced male sexual aggression so that they could rechannel it to other pursuits which...
They just interviewed the oldest American CEO. He's 106. They asked him what he credited his longevity to, and he said that getting up each day to go to work...
Orgasm appears to facilitate conception, but it doesn't appear to be necessary, unless all rape victims produce orgasms which I don't think has been studied...
... -- Both male and female circumcision look to me more like "handicapping", as do almost all other forms of elective mutilations such as body piercing,...
OK, I'll agree that circumcision denudes pleasure, but how would hominids or early humans know this? Perhaps one female chewed off her son's foreskin and...
Yes, names are important. Many people think that Artemis is a masculine name, so I am forced to precede it with Ms. to indicate my gender. I've noted that men...
This may be how it works. Haven't checked it out. I read somewhere that more than one sperm can penetrate an egg, but I think it said this was rare. -- Artemis...
No figure in the history of thought has been so comprehensively debunked and found out as a fraud than has Freud over the past 30 years (even Marx is some way...
The uselessness of studies that falsely test the sensitivity of the penis by shoving pins in them has been strongly pointed out by our moderator, Robert. (See...
Haci-Murat Hubey wrote If men have it so good, why are they killing themselves at four times the female rate? That is 400% not 4% or 40%. Graeme: I recall a...
Hi 'Artemis' No sex is "in charge". It is a system that maximises the reproduction of the reproducing group. This entails preferencing females because the...
The female orgasm is apparently highly unreliable -- many women never experience orgasm (with any partner or in masturbation), and most apparently experience...
... Yes, I use "selection at the group level" to emphasize what I am talking about, because "group selection" can have too much of a thoughtless knee-jerk...
... Fair enough, except the study looked at pairs of sisters. So their actual class background, etc., was controlled for. It is quite likely that certain girl...
... I have never been convinced by the data on EPC v within-pair copulation, because the studies are on different populations. Thus, there is a lot of...
The problem with the term 'group selection' is that it is also used to refer to the level of selection at the level of the whole reproducing group, and not...
Yes, I agree that it needs more research. That's why I used the expression 'what sees to be going on'. What we know is consistent with this, and there is no...
_____ steve moxon wrote It is not merely that the 'sinister plot' posited here is unable to meet any of thse basic challenges, but there is super abundant...
I would say these are variations on a theme. Any group selection has to be driven by between-group selection; that is, individuals in one group having enhanced...
Greetings Graeme Yes, I agree with all of that, bar where you rather mischaracterise what I said re female hierarchy. I don't say that no female hierarchy...
Mikael, Thanks for the interesting statistics. It doesn't really affect my thesis though since it was a clear aberration of traditional norms where it was...
Andy, What do you call 'reading that orientation and co-ordinating activities in a communal way' if not communication? The dog understands that a communication...
I don't think I particularly disagree with what you're suggesting. I'm offering a caveat that the existing research (and I think this is implicit in what you...
Jay, My definition is applicable across all species, considerably more so than yours. That is one reason I favor it since it does not carry an anthropocentric...
Haci-Murat, I wouldn't assume that females of other species don't have orgasms just because it hasn't been demonstrated that they do. There are few studies on...
Steve Moxon: As research posted on this forum just yesterday shows, marriage -- that is pair bonding in whatever form -- is for the very purpose of ...
