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  • Would You Deny A Man's Need to Protect Women?

    Perhaps this is a most appropriate forum to raise my disliked topic given this forum's Highbrow title and my viewpoint often condescendingly framed as being Lowbrow. In any case, while pop editorialists ponder whether America needs men to protect the women in their lives, the call of human nature goes unabaded in every new generation. It is an ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by Usama2 on November 20, 2007

  • Sex on Other Planets

    It is possible that as we discover life on other planets, where evolution could have taken a much different path than on Earth, we will find creatures with more than one sex. Having two sexes increases the chances for genetic diversity. For example, in some animal species, all males must leave the herd after puberty to find mates from other ...
    Posted to The Sex Issue by KnowItAll on October 2, 2007

  • Why only 2 sexes?

    For more on all of this, see my 2004 article in PLoS Biology Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sexes. How many sexes you see depends on how you define sex. There are three main aspects to the definition of a sex: who you are, who you can mate with, and who your parents are. The third part of this trinity—parental number—shows the least ...
    Posted to The Sex Issue by ja_whitfield on September 28, 2007

  • ovulation can be fun

    Call me when they invent a pill that just gets rid of menstruation, and isn't a birth control pill. I sometimes think our whole discussion women's monthly cycles is focused way too much on menstruation, only discussing ovulation as it pertains to pregnancy risk. Benefits of monthly ovulation:1. Mood is almost always better during ovulation than ...
    Posted to Human Nature by prime8 on June 20, 2007