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

Uhhh... Yeah. I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disgree with you there.
61 posted on 10/10/2006 10:11:56 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: Pyro7480

It's the demography, stupid ..... Mark Steyn





Then you might be interested to know that more mosques are being built in Africa than almost anywhere else and conversion rates are through the roof.


62 posted on 10/10/2006 10:12:27 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: white trash redneck
women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were

If so, then prostitutes should look much younger than other women their age. (end/sarcasm)

63 posted on 10/10/2006 10:12:42 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: white trash redneck
DUH...what about for making babies????
64 posted on 10/10/2006 10:13:13 AM PDT by goodnesswins (I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
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To: durasell
And, what? You think that's a good thing?
65 posted on 10/10/2006 10:13:15 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: durasell

That may be true. However, conversion rates in Africa to Christianity are also "through the roof."


66 posted on 10/10/2006 10:13:43 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: A Texan

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





Neither do I, but putting on a condom must be a very different experience for them.


67 posted on 10/10/2006 10:14:09 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: mysterio

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


68 posted on 10/10/2006 10:14:18 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: Rudder
Asexual reproduction is ... the most common means of reproduction.

Hmmm. I guess this must be counting all the division of bacterium.

How is this measured? By number of living organisms? By tonnage of the organisms on planet earth? Please elaborate.

69 posted on 10/10/2006 10:14:21 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: wideawake
"The utter lack of rational responses to the accurate statement I made indicates that you and your cohorts have nothing useful to say."

Getting a just little too overtightened over this subject wouldn't you say?

Maybe you need to have more sex!
70 posted on 10/10/2006 10:14:23 AM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: white trash redneck
Sex results in a more youthful appearance. According to a study by Dr David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland and co-author of Superyoung (1999), men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.

You're my secret beauty routine
Na, na, na, na, what my body has seen
I am lookin' good and I'm feeling nice
Baby you're the best magazine advice

Gimme your...

71 posted on 10/10/2006 10:14:30 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: A Texan
Wow, just wow. I don't even know what to say to someone that believes something like this.

You did say something. You registered surprise.

I would invite you to read the first section of Mary Steyn's America Alone.

Muslims are gaining control over Europe demographically, because they are reproducing at natural rates and native Europeans are contracepting themselves out of existence.

There are neighborhoods in France where 15 years ago the French and Muslim populations were equal, but now those neighborhoods are overwhelmingly Muslim because the average Muslim woman has had five children in those neighborhoods over the past 15 years while half the French women have had none and the other half have had one.

They have basically handed over their community to Islam in 15 years.

You can say wow to that as well, but try thinking it through afterwards.

72 posted on 10/10/2006 10:15:06 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake
How many kids do you have?
73 posted on 10/10/2006 10:15:07 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: orionblamblam

C'mon, no biological explanations, please, only theological explanations will pass the smell test among some of our more right leaning members. In realty, sex is a pleasurable, activity. In the skewed reality in which we are supposedly headed (Christian theocracy), sex is a gift from God that only married believers may participate, otherwise it's a dirty, animalistic activity. Guess what, we ARE animals, simply more developed than others, therefore we have the need to participate in certain activities, whether or not a bible, torah or quaran says it's OK.


74 posted on 10/10/2006 10:16:21 AM PDT by BritExPatInFla
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To: ArrogantBustard

And, what? You think that's a good thing?



No. I don't think that's a bad thing, but the mosques are offering education, food, social services. A ton of muslim money is pouring into some of those countries.

So, you could say that by not heaping money into African charities is the same as converting to Islam.


75 posted on 10/10/2006 10:16:50 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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76 posted on 10/10/2006 10:18:19 AM PDT by traditional1
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To: BritExPatInFla
Guess what, we ARE animals, simply more developed than others, therefore we have the need to participate in certain activities, whether or not a bible, torah or quaran says it's OK.

You have more dignity than that.

77 posted on 10/10/2006 10:18:32 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: goodnesswins
DUH...what about for making babies????

Okay, then, you've made a case for having sex 1-10 times in a lifetime...

I think the author was considering reasons for having it a bit more often than that.

78 posted on 10/10/2006 10:19:03 AM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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To: Physicist
Three so far. Hopefully several more in the future, God willing.

I've only been married for a few years - given continued health we can probably hope for five or six more.

79 posted on 10/10/2006 10:19:04 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Rudder
Actually, sex is an impediment to reproduction.

I have 3 kids. It's the other way around.

80 posted on 10/10/2006 10:19:22 AM PDT by EricT. (The Democrats have decided it will either be a Democrat led America, or no America at all.)
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