Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door

[Monte Davis]

Michael Bailey sez:

> The parties in Sudwest are the logical conclusion of sex sought for
> sensation and not procreation, urges unseated from their evolutionary
> reason for being...

I think you've got a strawman behind that word "sensation, and/or an
implicit "mere" in front of it. Are you sure you want to go there? Would we
be "more natural" aka better if human females came in heat at intervals, and
the rest of the time neither party were interested? Ah, life without
temptation, wot bliss eh?

Most (maybe all) of our specifically human behaviors are "unseated":  they
take capabilities with functional, pragmatic "evolutionary reasons for
being" and extend them to contexts in which the function is increasingly
communicative, symbolic, ritualized, long-range. There are evolutionary
reasons for being an agile biped. Would you describe as unseated _Giselle_,
or the dirty bop, or a perfect launch into the mosh? There are evolutionary
reasons for being able to convey <feed me> or <ripe fruit over there> to
someone who isn't looking at you. Are Robert Hunter lyrics unseated from
that? Etc...

-Monte