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- From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
- Subject: Re: Fundamentalists and the clitoris
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- References: <9NOV92.11344298@enh.nist.gov> <1992Nov16.183813.19959@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <1992Nov16.212806.4163@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:36:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.212806.4163@netcom.com>, solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay) writes:
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- |> It turns out that both of these organs are Good Things to have,
- |> since they're fun to play with... but this was not a factor in
- |> their evolution. Females of other specieas can have orgasms from
- |> clitoral stimulation, yet their natural sexual positions almost
- |> never produce this. (Must have been fun for the scientists to
- |> determine this...) In this sense, female orgasm is also an
- |> evolutionary accident, though a fortuitous one. I hasten to say
- |> that evolution is not a moral arbiter. There is reason to believe
- |> that language is also an evolutionary accident, but I'm glad we
- |> have it.
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- I hate it when human sexuality gets compared to and
- defined using lower animal behaviors. Human sexuality
- is a complicated and subtle thing, and human sexual desires
- and needs and expression cannot be explained simply in
- terms of the "functional" penis and "non-functional"
- clitoris. There are so many basic differences (a big
- one being that human females do not change appearance
- when they are in a fertile period) that comparisons
- like this are specious.
-
- And language is a virus from outer space according to
- Wm Burroughs. I'm inclined to agree.
-
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