
Wanting to be Wanted (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
Minds Almost Meeting
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Sex Is a Ritual but It's a Funny Ritual
Sex is always going to sit at the edge of what society accepts so that the cost, in effect, the cost you're paying is like social sanctions right. So like you prove that you really love me by doing not by defying your parents. And because sex isn't that I mean that is sex is very weird and it's very, it's very heterogeneous and it can go badly like shaking hands never goes badly right. No one ever walks away from shaking hands like, or I mean, very rarely let's just say, right, the sex often does go badly."
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