Nafter

Title says it all i think heh, why is sex enjoyable in a evolutionary sense? Was it to help people want to have sex so they would reproduce more, do animals get enjoyment out of it? I read somewhere that only humans and dolphins have sex for fun, so is it that dogs etc get no pleasure out of it or dont have the intelligence to do it for fun?
Is there a definate scientific answer? what do you think

Silvy

It is pleasurable to urge us to produce offspring.
Animals crave sex as well but only during high-fertility moments.
I think that would also point out the difference between functional sex and sex-for-fun.

Evolutionary-wise I have no explanation up front for the fact that we 'do it all the time' while other species don't. Perhaps this is a form of 'free will' only found in more intelligent species? (*wild guessing here*)

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Sapper

Because of the release of endorphins and other neurotransmitters .

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meff

Yeap, this is what I think too. And pheremones/hormones that get you hotter for your SO. A little bit of foreplay and you'll be screwing all night

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World's King

Because if it wasn't so pleasurable then the race would have stopped. With as disgusting it is, it had to be fun to do or else no one would ever do it.

If slamming my dick in a car door felt like it does when I stick my dick in a girl then I would be doing that everyday but it doesn't... it hurts. So, I have sex.

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rmarshall

Dogs go crazy when they smell a female, not necessarily in heat. My ex had a female wolf-dog puppy (not in heat, but it hadn't been fixed yet). We had a party and somebody brought their male terrier (little dog). It spent the entire night trying to have sex with the big wolf-dog pup. The poor wolf-dog pup was covered in doggy cum.

Humans get horny too by the smell (the endorphins, or whatever), also the sight of a woman.

Or maybe just because they've been thinking about sex all day.

Mostly, it's the intimacy, the love that makes it pleasurable. Do animals love their mate?

sexymama

Ours is not to question why! Just sit back, accept, enjoy, and thank God that it is pleasurable.

Truly, everyone else has said it very well -- no need to repeat.

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meepa

Among the other chemical reasons people stated, I think part of the evolutionary fact is due to humans being able to mate any time of the year. Many animals have their instincts kick in at the prime time to mate, which coincides with the right time to give birth and raise offspring. Humans are adaptive and can rear young anyplace, any time. So instead of having our sex horomones go in overdrive in the spring and have us so horny that we rape anything we see, we got lucky and had it feel good, so we'd do it all the time. Although I have no idea if this is true, you could always go with the idea that somewhere there was a mutation that gave sex pleasure, and naturally those organisms would fuck all the time, have the most offspring, spread the bling bling gene, etc. But what do I know, I'm no biologist!

stingc

Bonobos have sex lives as varied as humans. They give each other oral, kiss, masturbate, etc.

As for lower animals, you can do experiments with rats to show that they really enjoy it. For example, it is possible to implant electrodes in their brains that can trigger an orgasm. If you then give the rats a button they can push to trigger a voltage to these electrodes, they keep pressing it until they die of dehydration (yes, they're given the opportunity to get food and water).

lyxo

You must think about it. Our brains are so complex and interesting, if sex wasn't the most pleasurable thing, then we'd be off thinking and expanding our minds and not caring about reproduction. I mean, look at all those scientists that do research alone in a room, for years and years, and they don't get laid.
But, sex is good, sex is fun, so we do it and tend to think about too much as to not expand our brain, i.e. meatheads.

Kabsnow

clearly to reproduce.

if it wasn't for condoms and contraceptives, the human race would probly be in 20 billions by now.

meff

I think that we would've still had babies due to the fact that most couples *want* to have kids, and if they're ready for the hell of taking care of them, even if sex wasn't pleasurable, I bet they'd still fuck

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Amano

I think the evolutionary explanation is the easiest. Evolution naturally selects for genetic traits that increase the ability for an organism to reproduce and pass that trait down to its offspring.

The fact that sex feels good makes you want to do it, right? So, the fact you want to do it means you're more likely to do it than someone who doesn't enjoy it, and so you produce offspring... and so on..

Circular reasoning? Yeah, sort of.

tigerkick

sex is like an itch.. if u dont scratch it, it will bug you.. if you do.. you'll feel good and relief making you want to scratch some more.

filtherton

I think the feel-good orgasm is part of nature's plan to eventually evolve a master race of superhuman sock and kleenex people. It is only a matter of time.

motdakasha

Then why are cats still existent today? A cat's penis is hooked and barbed. Cat sex is not a happy thing. (That's why they sound like they're fighting when they have sex... it's just as painful for the girl, anyway.) Going by this theory, they should be extinct.

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