FirmhandKY -> RE: Gagging at the thought of a cock? (9/1/2011 7:54:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig quote:
Men are biologically driven to spread their seed wide and far. This involves being hyper driven towards hetero-sex. So when a male goes gay, the heteromen are just plain stumped. Women don't have the same issue, because one of their major concerns is to find stable relationships in their life. Biologically, evolution dictated that women were more successful in reproduction if engaged in a healthy stable relationship. In theory, this could mean sharing resources with other women on top of bonding with a male counterpart, etc. While women are driven to have sex for procreation, pair bonding stability, and pleasure, there is no need for hyper heterosexuality when a women can only produce as many as 1 child per year. This almost makes sense, until you think of how it would be biologically counterproductive to have women wired to seek a stable relationship with men who are wired for the opposite. And human beings are anything BUT biologically unsuccessful. Well, according to the latest in evolutionary psychology, you are both likely partially right. First, the human animal has a very wild latitude of strategies for mating, and a wide variability in individual personality. You can only talk about such behavior in the aggregate, not in the specific. With these caveats in mind, then, men and women have several different mating strategies, and which strategy they may embrace at any specific time and place depends on a lot of different factors. Believe it or not, monogamy (at least serial monogamy) seems to be one of the main human mating strategies. It is one of the two main strategies of men, the other being "fuck everything they can, whenever they can" and occasionally limited polygamy. Women, on the other hand, tend to long term monogamy, and then the "bait and switch" i.e. marry a man who has good status and can provide for her offspring, and then attempt to obtain the genes of a more physically fit man. None of these strategies are things that any individual is "forced into" by nature. They are tendencies and sometimes desires, but acting on them is always an individual choice. This area of research is very interesting, but also very easy to misunderstand, and turn into justifications for behavior, when it shouldn't be. Firm
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