>>Pleasure is now the historically evolved function of
>>sex for human
>>beings -- till relatively recently in history most
>>women probably had
>>little pleasure from it.
>>
>>
>
>Meaning of this please -- is there a human activity
>that has, even in a historically limited way just one
>function that merits the definite article? And what do
>you mean by "pleasure," as opposed to what? Economic
>need involved in keeping a provider, obsession,
>submission to greater force, producing children, what?
>Evidence for this vague claim?
>
I think the short answer is we don't know.
I suspect things got a lot nicer since birth control, but the advent of birth control coincides with women working double shifts (work & home) and exhaustion definitely affects the capacity to feel pleasure.
Joanna