Looks like we’re not alone in the sexual accoutrement department. We now know that chimpanzees also use “tools” to enhance their sex lives. I anthropocentrically put “tools” in scare quotes because, let’s be honest, they’ve got a long way to go before they achieve an ape-vibrator. Even so, the evidence is intriguing. Says primatologist Dr. [...]
I’m just going to throw this quote out there from a Scientific American article that I just read:
Studies from around the world have reported that men are more jealous of sexual infidelity than emotional infidelity. And women are the opposite—they’re more jealous of emotional cheating than sexual cheating. Experts often lean on an evolutionary cause [...]
You know what I’m tired of? The “how does the female orgasm fit into evolutionary science” argument. I’m tired of all angles of this argument, from the camp that says there must be some way female orgasm makes women more evolutionarily viable — as mothers, mates, potential mothers, potential mates– and I’m tired of [...]
As a former student of the social sciences, I am made uncomfortable by “just-so stories” of evolutionary causality. Nevertheless, it would be naive to dismiss them outright simply because they make one uncomfortable.
This particular article intrigues me because it offers a potential explanation for the female orgasm that does not appear to be derogatory or [...]
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