Re: [Pen-l] Prostitution

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
I agree with Doug, you are spouting off and don't know the subject  
very well.  it is difficult to get figures across cultures about what  
people actually do sexually.  In principal we don't have any real  
solid foundations to say that Spartans generally were same sex  
practitioners as well as hetero sex practitioners.  All available  
evidence points to a vast difference between their attitude to  
homosexuality and the U.S.  This is just a reference point to indicate  
that various cultures varied in sexual practices.  There is no solid  
grounds to say why the U.S. hovers around the percentages that are  
relatively stable in the U.S. for sexual practices.  But the  
percentages are learned aspects of behavior rather than what nature  
defines.

Nature defines reproduction as important but does not care about  
wasted sexual activity from the point of reproduction as long as the  
species remains able to reproduce itself.  It's hard for people to get  
it that social pressures are dominant in sexual activity.  Not genetic  
rules of behavior.  The genetics do not rule the details as much as  
frame what can happen and let interaction between humans or animals do  
what it will do.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
On May 26, 2009, at 8:22 PM, David B. Shemano wrote:

> Do you really, really, really believe that male and female sexuality  
> is entirely culturally determined?  Do you believe homosexuality is  
> entirely cultural, maybe improper toilet training?  Do you believe  
> men (generally speaking), and not women (generally speaking), will  
> spend hours looking at internet pornography because the men were  
> given trucks to play with and the women were given dolls?  Gimme a  
> break.  Culture matters, but so does biology, in a big way.

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