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Human sexuality is complex, as befits such a complex creature as man. I think our generation is coming to terms with some truly game-changing developments when it comes to human sexuality. We are a generation that has, largely, become accustomed to divorce and the idea that mommy and daddy no longer love one another. We are also a generation (in)famous for our ?hookups? and sexual openness. I don?t necessarily think this is a bad thing, as we?re beginning to reconcile our evolutionary sexual heritage with our modern culture.
We now understand love in a way that was impossible even 50 years ago. Love is a neurochemical and hormonal condition brought about to form a pair bond with a mate. Love is evolutionarily?advantageous?as a trait. Mated pairs that are emotionally attached (via chemical mechanisms) stand a greater chance of rearing offspring past the ?age of danger? That ?age of danger? is key. Humans are at the greatest risk of death between birth and about seven years of age. After that age, the immune system has dealt with quite a few dangers and a given human is smart enough to fend for his or herself in a limited fashion. We do not pump out thousands of fry or larvae like other species, so we must invest in our offspring. The investment, when looking at ancient man, is enormous. Females must invest an inordinate amount of calories into reproduction and both sexes must invest energy, time, and effort in the rearing of offspring. Females, therefor, are naturally choosy about their reproductive investment. Males are less discriminate because of the low caloric investment that insemination entails.
There is another side to this relationship coin: sperm competition. Human sperm competition levels stand somewhere between the promiscuous chimpanzee and the prudish (if ?polygamous?) gorilla. Like it or not guys, we produce and store large amounts of sperm when our girlfriends/wives are away as an evolutionary mechanism to overwhelm and outcompete the sperm of other males that might have inseminated her during her?absence. Trust and love play no part in this sperm count spike.
A funny thing about modern human relationships; the mean amount of time that a long-term relationship or marriage lasts is about 7 years. Another funny thing is infidelity. Personal sexual needs/desires aside, humans are astonishingly unfaithful throughout almost all cultures. The reasons for the infidelity are evolutionary in nature, as males seek to spread their seed and females look to combine the good genes of a strong mate with the offspring-rearing potential of a stable mate.
There?s a fly in all of this ointment though and that fly is technology. The clitoris and Grafenberg organ both serve a purpose: to make sex pleasurable for females. The female sex drive exists and it has been unleashed by technology. No longer burdened with caloric and social investments in reproduction, females are pursuing sexual adventure and conquest with a zeal that would make the Conquistadors? lust for gold seem tame. The realization of female sexuality as equal to a male?s and strictly pleasure-driven has changed human civilization and society in ways that are still to be fully realized. The economic consequences of this are also Earth-shattering in that half of the human population is now capable of full-time work like never before.
Even if not scientifically, my generation accepts both female sexuality and ?innate? human sexual behavior on a level and in ways not seen in previous generations. We seem to have settled on serial monogamy, rather than polyamory, polyandry, or polygamy as a social norm. Serial monogamy, though similar in name, is drastically different from traditional monogamy. There is also the introduction of concepts like ?monogamish? and its increasing acceptance to consider.
It?s not just the male-female dynamic that is becoming more culturally accepted as the science of understanding human sexuality advances. The discovery of an analogue of the GB (GenderBlind) mutation found in D. melanogaster in humans has improved our understanding of homosexuality in humans. Though there are developmental endocrine factors to consider, we now understand that homosexual attraction is not a choice. We?re also realizing, on the social level, that homosexuality is in no way deleterious to civilization and this is engendering an attitude of tolerance among my generation. Similar developments apply to transsexual and ?gender-queer? people as well.
Generation Y is embracing and coming to terms with human sexuality in a scientific, intellectual, and cultural sense like no other before it. We?re coming to terms with our evolutionary heritage and the realities of human nature. My only concern is that proper education about our sexuality is being warped or overshadowed by pop cultural depictions, religious mores, and misinformation about what it means to be a sexually active human. We have made so much progress, we owe it to ourselves (and our penises, and vaginas, and other erogenous zones) to properly educate ourselves about our sexuality. Knowledge is power, sexual power? and who doesn?t like sexual power? Well, I guess submissives don?t, but they certainly like others to have sexual power.
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Source: http://nameless-the-movie.com/blog/?p=142
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