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5. That you have so nonchalantly confined sexuality so tightly is extremely problematic.

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 07:42 PM

Oct 2013

There is the physical act of sex, all the various thrusting, receiving, gyrating, stimulation, pain and pleasure (not referring to the social constructs), orgasm, muscle contractions, sweating, and ejaculation and then there is the social constructs of sex.

The two are not of the same source. Just as the fact that my finger hurts when I burn it says almost nothing of the source of the burning.

It is, according to my own analysis and studies, almost exclusively the process of socialization that creates normative values for things like attraction, sexual orientation, gender identity and much of an individuals pleasure.

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EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY IS HERE TO STAY: A RESPONSE TO BULLER [View all] Bonobo Oct 2013 OP

While I don't doubt all Evo-psych, I hate when it's used to describe certain things it shouldn't. Dash87 Oct 2013 #1

Excess in anything is bad. Bonobo Oct 2013 #2

Evolutionary psychology, for the most part, is no more falsifiable than blank slate theories. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #3

Instincts. Bonobo Oct 2013 #4

That you have so nonchalantly confined sexuality so tightly is extremely problematic. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #5

Yes, it is a complex and multi-layered matter to be sure. Bonobo Oct 2013 #6

Maybe Jews are just naturally more greedy. Maybe black people naturally have a lower average IQ. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #7

I think a descent into absurdities does not invalidate the approach. Bonobo Oct 2013 #8

There are in fact clearly environmental effects that alter the physicality of an animal... Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #9

No doubt. Bonobo Oct 2013 #10

So thus we have shifted away from "how much" to "when." Which is an important distinction. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #11

I don't know anyone here who said it was ALWAYS in play, but Bonobo Oct 2013 #12