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One problem with this is that evolutionary selection pressures don't work to ensure constant sexual excitement for the individual; rather, sexual excitement is a mechanism that has been selected to ensure the evolutionary imperative of creating as many copies of oneself as possible. | One problem with this is that evolutionary selection pressures don't work to ensure constant sexual excitement for the individual; rather, sexual excitement is a mechanism that has been selected to ensure the evolutionary imperative of creating as many copies of oneself as possible. | ||
That particular individual may abuse this mechanism to be in a state of constant excitement is not sufficient evidence that women have been strongly selected for promiscuous mating. | That particular individual may abuse this mechanism to be in a state of constant excitement is not sufficient evidence that women have been strongly selected for promiscuous mating. | ||
We can expose this faulty thinking by comparing it to drug abuse. If we make the goal pleasurable sensation, just like this feminist (who's Asian btw) makes constant sexual excitement the goal. We discover that by taking certain drugs, we can produce intensely pleasurable sensations by abusing the pleasure mechanisms in the brain, it would be faulty thinking to then conclude that we are drug addicts by nature now wouldn't it. Simply because individuals abuse certain evolved mechanisms to achieve certain hedonic ends it does not follow that these behaviors are natural. | We can expose this faulty thinking by comparing it to drug abuse. If we make the goal pleasurable sensation, just like this feminist (who's Asian btw) makes constant sexual excitement the goal. We discover that by taking certain drugs, we can produce intensely pleasurable sensations by abusing the pleasure mechanisms in the brain, it would be faulty thinking to then conclude that we are drug addicts by nature now wouldn't it. Simply because individuals abuse certain evolved mechanisms to achieve certain hedonic ends, it does not then follow that these behaviors are natural. | ||
The pleasure mechanisms in the brain have evolved to motivate the individual to perform actions that are conducive to reproductive success; that drugs can be used to stimulate those pleasure mechanisms is not evidence that those pleasure mechanisms have evolved for humans to take drugs (unless of course taking drugs is adaptive and contributes to reproductive success). | The pleasure mechanisms in the brain have evolved to motivate the individual to perform actions that are conducive to reproductive success; that drugs can be used to stimulate those pleasure mechanisms is not evidence that those pleasure mechanisms have evolved for humans to take drugs (unless of course taking drugs is adaptive and contributes to reproductive success). | ||