Re:Human sexual behavior

Greg,

Could you be refering to instinct?.

But I think there's some validity in what your saying as a whole. Your references are to lower primates, bonobos,chimp,etc is that correct?

One good reason for a sexual rule or moral would be as an aid in solidifying sexual bonding. If males could convince others, or succeed in making it ingrained in society, of the wrongness of persuing sexual liasons with an attached female, then the male who has a group of females has less of a burden keeping them if a percentage of the males believe in it. The male that has been taught that it is wrong carries the extra baggage of guilt even though he may do it anyway. In a way it relates to shame.
Shame is the intent for the purpose sexual supression, sexual morals and it's brothers are the tools to create the shame.

That helps explain the shock encountered by the woman in the topic. If both subjects were raised in different parts of the world where sex was open, the woman would not have found it unusual as primate nature intended. But something caused the shock, and that is society's conditioning.

Let's take another example. If John is caught peeking
into a woman's bedroom window, society views it as a sexual
dysfunction. In reality John is manifesting the need to express primate instincts in an advanced society where his instincts are still primitive, but the behavior is not tolerated. It is rare that John is told he is acting normally, but in the wrong setting.

Perhaps this could explain why the world is spending millions on sexual therapy and sexual causitive therapy. The supression of instinctual sexual expression means millions of dollars to the therapy industry.

In reference to the post, in the primate family open public masturbation is normal.

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