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What are the scientific reasons for having sex?
The Register (UK) ^ | 10 oct 06 | Dr Stephen Juan

Posted on 10/10/2006 9:45:12 AM PDT by white trash redneck

What are the scientific reasons for having sex?

Asked by Jill Howard of Alexandria, Virginia, USA

The reasons for not engaging in sex include transmission of diseases, heart attack due to exertion, and many others. The reasons for engaging in sex are numerous. Among these are:

Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney.


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To: wideawake; XJarhead
There is no practical difference between using contraception and converting to Islam.

Does that make my urologist Mohammed for converting thousands to Islam by performing vasectomies?

41 posted on 10/10/2006 9:58:25 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!!!)
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To: white trash redneck

...printing out the reasons to give to my Wife later tonight...


42 posted on 10/10/2006 9:58:35 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." (Psalm 53:1))
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To: NRA2BFree
Are you crazy? LOL THAT, FRiend, is just plain nutz.

My, what a substantive statement.

Westerners reproduce at below replacement rates, and the USA is the only Western country of any size that is reproducing at a replacement rate.

Europe is being overtaken by Muslims because Europeans are no longer producing enough children to sustain their population.

People who intentionally limit their reproduction are handing their future over to the Muslims, who aren't.

There is no practical difference between ceding the future to Islam and converting to Islam. One is still helping them to gain the ascendancy over the West.

I refer you to Mark Steyn's recent book America Alone in which he describes the demographic situation in detail.

Right now, one in every three children born in France is Muslim, despite Muslims comprising only one in ten of the population. In 15 years that ratio will be one in two.

43 posted on 10/10/2006 9:58:39 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Larry Lucido
While I don't count myself among the "sex only for procreation" types

I would clarify the above by saying that the primary end of sex is procreation. But a secondary end is the unitive (aka the pleasurable) aspect of that act.

44 posted on 10/10/2006 9:59:36 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: Larry Lucido; wideawake
the "sex only for procreation" types,

I don't recall having met very many such ... I'm certainly not one. I doubt wideawake is, either. OTOH, see tagline. Human sexuality is ordered to the union of the spouses, and the procreation of the species. Unfortunately, some folks have turned it into a trivial game for playboys, with disastrous consequences.

45 posted on 10/10/2006 9:59:40 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: white trash redneck

I guess I've been doing it for all the wrong reasons.


46 posted on 10/10/2006 10:00:09 AM PDT by PatriotCJC
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To: teenyelliott

Take it up with Mark Steyn. It's really not my fault if you can't follow the logic of actions and their consequences.


47 posted on 10/10/2006 10:00:35 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: You Dirty Rats

You have a dick-doc named Mohammed? LOL


48 posted on 10/10/2006 10:01:31 AM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: white trash redneck

I think both Darwin and the Church can agree on one point, if nothing else: The primary purpose of sex is reproduction.


49 posted on 10/10/2006 10:02:03 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: wideawake
There is no practical difference between using contraception and converting to Islam.

According to the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, that is more nutted than the feces of any of the various arboreal rodents of the genus "Sciurus" and related genera of the family "Sciuridae."

50 posted on 10/10/2006 10:03:01 AM PDT by IamConservative (A mans true character is revealed in what he does when no one is watching.)
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To: Pyro7480

Asexual reproduction is easier, doesn't require being attractive to another conspecific and is the most common means of reproduction. Sex is a selective pressure inasmuch as it favors only the more vigorous, attractive and socially adroit.


51 posted on 10/10/2006 10:05:13 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: white trash redneck

geek pickup lines...


52 posted on 10/10/2006 10:06:14 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Expect a lot of democrat poll-smoking between now and 11/7)
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To: wideawake; NRA2BFree; teenyelliott; spunkets; durasell; ArrogantBustard; You Dirty Rats; ...
It's the demography, stupid ..... Mark Steyn
53 posted on 10/10/2006 10:08:25 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: hosepipe

Oh my! This could take a while. (;


54 posted on 10/10/2006 10:08:54 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: wideawake

"There is no practical difference between using contraception and converting to Islam."

Wow, just wow. I don't even know what to say to someone that believes something like this.


55 posted on 10/10/2006 10:08:59 AM PDT by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: IamConservative
The utter lack of rational responses to the accurate statement I made indicates that you and your cohorts have nothing useful to say.

Look at Western birthrates and compare them to Muslim birthrates and get back to me.

56 posted on 10/10/2006 10:09:26 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: white trash redneck
You mean you actually have to have a reason?

I've heard it said that women need a reason to have sex and men need a location.

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57 posted on 10/10/2006 10:09:38 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: A Texan

Read post #43 and the link in post #53.


58 posted on 10/10/2006 10:10:16 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: white trash redneck

Bad science.


59 posted on 10/10/2006 10:11:28 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Man defiles a rock when he chips it with a tool. Ex 20:25)
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To: white trash redneck
What are the scientific reasons for having sex?

Uh, repayment for dinner and a show?

60 posted on 10/10/2006 10:11:33 AM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA} Proud Infidel Since 1968)
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