Eugine_Nier comments on Using Evolution for Marriage or Sex - Less Wrong

17 Post author: diegocaleiro 06 May 2013 05:34AM

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Comment author: DanArmak 07 May 2013 10:53:50PM 3 points [-]

You think that the danger of sex is biological and that this has been vanquished by vaccines, condoms, etc. In reality, most of the power of sex to harm is social, emotional, and psychological.

I think what diegocaleiro is saying is that these social and emotional factors are adaptations that evolved due to the biological dangers. Now that the biological dangers are mostly gone, the adaptations are unnecessary and even harmful. So inasfar as we can consciously influence the social and psychological factors, we would benefit from changing them to promote more sex.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 May 2013 04:07:40AM 1 point [-]

Now that the biological dangers are mostly gone, the adaptations are unnecessary and even harmful.

So are the adaptations that make sex as pleasurable as it is.

Comment author: DanArmak 08 May 2013 08:05:49AM 3 points [-]

Yes, but our goals are not the goals of evolution. I want to keep sex pleasurable; I don't want to keep it emotionally and socially complicated and discouraged.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 May 2013 03:14:05AM 1 point [-]

See my more detailed discussion here.

Comment author: DanArmak 09 May 2013 06:32:41AM 0 points [-]

Replied there.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 08 May 2013 11:39:10AM 0 points [-]

Thanks Dan, you made the Evolutionary Heuristic Point very clear in this and other comments!