Not Just For Making Babies

Never was. Ran into this notice while surfing this morning, about a new study of prehistoric sex:

He argues that monogamy only became established as hunter-gatherer societies took up agriculture and settled in houses, allowing the social roles of men and women to become more fixed.

Experts believe research such as [Timothy] Taylor’s may help overturn false assumptions that sex for the purposes of reproduction is the form closest to nature.

Petra Boynton, a relationship counsellor and health lecturer at University College, London, found the study “refreshing”.

“So much evolutionary theory promotes the idea that humans, particularly women, are preprogrammed for monogamy, but that is often simply overlaying science on a preexisting view of society,” she said.

It took organized religion to turn us into breeding stock. Oh, and in case you were wondering, face-to-face sex is just as easy for two men as for anyone else.