Q&A Forum - February 2008 (The best of Elise)

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Human beings, as the most evolved mammals, use sex to ensure their own survival. Nevertheless, there are some important differences that we have to take into account. We need to reproduce ourselves to exist, as any other species, and this requires that our commitment for reproduction is strong enough to ensure our survival. This commitment, that is: sex drive, is very strongly imprinted in our behavior – otherwise we would have become an extinct species - as is our drive to get food, water and avoid harm. Animals have no control over this drive, they just follow and obey the pattern of sexual behavior of their own species, and they do not obtain pleasure from sex. On the contrary, the superiority of humans derives from our ability to modify and adapt our own patterns of behavior using our exclusive ability of intelligent thought, and the patters of we can modify includes our patterns of sexual behavior. Also, one of the mechanisms used by Nature to ensure our reproduction is rewarding us for sex, we can obtain pleasure from sex. The consequence is that relationships and patterns of behavior change as our culture evolves, these changes reflect new situations, and we promote these changes because they are rewarding for us.