Eugine_Nier comments on Using Evolution for Marriage or Sex - Less Wrong
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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.
So are the adaptations that make sex as pleasurable as it is.
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.
See my more detailed discussion here.
Replied there.
Thanks Dan, you made the Evolutionary Heuristic Point very clear in this and other comments!