About the evolution of unusual sexual behaviours
Earlier, I posted a blog raising uncomfortable questions about why so many guys fantasised about their wives making love to some guy — boss, buddy etc. Why was such evolutionarily counterproductive behaviour as offering your own wife to some other dudes such a tantalizing thought, was the question raised. My touchstone is that unless a behaviour had evolutionary value or survival value, it would have died out thanks to natural selection. And while I’m at it, let me hazard a comment on how gay behaviour among both sexes made evolutionary sense, and helped the survival of those endowed with those instincts/impulses/desires. (Please don’t mind me, darlings!) OK, here goes: For a few tens of thousand years back there in the prehistoric past, things were pretty rough, especially during the Ice Ages. Most infants that were born — say 99 out of hundred — never made it into their teens. Most teenagers — say 70 out of hundred — never made it to age ...