Questions No One asks about Human Sexuality
Here are a bunch of questions about human sexuality that no one wants to ask. Probably because the answers frighten everyone!
Here are a bunch of questions about human sexuality that no one wants to ask. Probably because the answers frighten everyone!
We can’t understand human beings without understanding human sexuality. Recently, I had a post that discussed the orgasmic potential in women. It was well received by people I happen to know in real life. Whereas, for the first time, I had people unsubscribing to the blog updates! I thought I should explain why I keep straying into human sexuality every now and then.
In the very first post, I discussed how internet is becoming a very rich source for researchers on human behavior. One such source is a online dating website called OkCupid.
OkCupid has a nice blog, where they keep publishing interesting pieces of researches, based on gargantuan sample size. Compared to their studies, the regular University researches look laughably puny and homogeneous.
These are some of my favorite findings:
We didn’t grow a large brain to help ourselves find better food, fend from predators or to change the very landscape of the planet, like we are doing today. We evolved a large brain hundreds of thousands of years before we did all that.
There is a term called “honest signalling” in evolutionary biology. It is not a new insight, but it is going to form basis for some of the key discussions we are going to have in the future.