[lit-ideas] Re: For JL
- From: palma@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:28:49 -0500 (EST)
why shouldn't it?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, John McCreery wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why is sex so often associated with violence?
> >
> > Because women are so uncooperative? I don't know.
> >
>
> At the risk of interrupting the humorous repartee, allow me to note the
> most likely answer, a simple, literal fact: Human beings are animals. The
> association of sex and violence is a common pattern found among any number
> of species, but especially among those where the number of offspring is low
> and copulation required to fertilize the egg. This pattern is strongly
> associated with territoriality and defense of the nest. The mitigating
> factor is typically the ritualization of violence that minimizes actual
> injury. An alternative, found among several insects, but especially the
> preying mantis, involves the killing and consumption of the male once the
> act of copulation is successfully undertaken. There are, I believe, some
> species of mantis in which the female beheads the male while the penis is
> still inserted and pumping away.
>
> Ah, biology.
>
> John
>
>
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