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#520 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love
Modern Wisdom
What's Going on With Non-Reproductive Sex?
Sex is designed for all animals, never mind humans, to be a pleasurable experience and therefore make you keep coming back and doing it. What do you think's going on with non-reproductive sex then, if you're using contraception? Well, I mean, sex is designed to make you keep doing it. It's clearly geared to reinforcing the pair bond because the amount of sex that has to be done to conceive is just outrageous. No sensible primate would ever waste so much time in sex, just to conceive an offspring. The only explanation for that is simply to prolong the pleasurable components of sex to reinforce the pair bond. Because what happens? You have to remember it's
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