02-20-2011, 09:45 AM
Thank you Azulai for a fascinating reply. Indeed thank you all for your replies.
I suppose I ought to add my tuppence worth too..
Speaking purely from personal experience, sex does tend to bring me and my bf closer together emotionally speaking. So I do believe that gay sex has a purpose of 'pair-bonding'.
If heterosexual sex was purely about fertilisation (reproduction is a very big topic with lots of facets) then straight women would only want sex during their fertile period and straight men only be sexually interested in them at that time. Since straight couples repeatedly have sex when the chance of conception is very low then I think we can safely say, from a biological point of view, that straight sex is about more than fertilisation. So it shouldn't be too surprising if some of the biological functions of straight sex also apply to gay couples.
azulai Wrote:Anyway, both of these hormones promote “pair bonding.” So, sex and emotional attachment do have a scientific link.
I suppose I ought to add my tuppence worth too..
Speaking purely from personal experience, sex does tend to bring me and my bf closer together emotionally speaking. So I do believe that gay sex has a purpose of 'pair-bonding'.
If heterosexual sex was purely about fertilisation (reproduction is a very big topic with lots of facets) then straight women would only want sex during their fertile period and straight men only be sexually interested in them at that time. Since straight couples repeatedly have sex when the chance of conception is very low then I think we can safely say, from a biological point of view, that straight sex is about more than fertilisation. So it shouldn't be too surprising if some of the biological functions of straight sex also apply to gay couples.
Fred
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.