[lbo-talk] New Sex drugs

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Jun 1 19:55:17 PDT 2005


Bill Bartlett wrote:


> At 8:33 PM -0700 31/5/05, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>> In short, I still think female orgasms are a spandrel. If women
>> were motivated by solely by orgasms to have sexual activity, let's
>> face it--vaginal intercourse wouldn't be anywhere near the top of
>> the list.
>>
>>> To put it
>>> vulgarly, "fucking ability is more important than fighting ability in
>>> measuring Darwinian fitness."
>>
I'm so confused. Do orgasms have to exist for a reason? Why couldn't they be related to just the sheer joy of sensual pleasure and opening/trusting the other? Why do we have to make an instrument of everything?

Joanna



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