Sexual pleasure is an evolutionary development

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Promoting Intimacy and Other-Centered Sexuality

Sexual pleasure is an evolutionary development

Josey Vogels investigates Edward Shorter's claim that sexual hedonism is a natural progression in our evolutionary history.

Includes such things as:

... up until a few hundred years ago, people stank especially about the anus and perineum. It's also hard to feel sexy when your body is a big human scratching post of lice and scabies.

Religion was losing its grip on people's desire... "the considering of physical relations as a sin, tolerated solely from the viewpoint of reproduction, demands such a desolating courage that only a religious wife, who had never experienced pleasure nor proffered complaints, could tolerate it."

Article and comments at http://www.hour.ca/columns/messybedroom.aspx?iIDArticle=5525