Edward, you wrote: "Anonymous. If you are still out there, maybe we can conclude our discussion." So I agree with you that it is pointless to discuss which sexual behaviors are or not adaptative since Darwinian evolutionary theory, from which the notion of adaptation I was using came, has no relevance to such questions when addressing what is adaptive for the future--it only addresses what WAS adaptive in the past. Only time will tell what is adaptive and nobody knows how much time it will take to find out. End of discussion indeed.
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Sounds good to me, Edward, especially given some recent readings I have found on evolutionary theory. It seems that Darwinian evolutionary theory was critiqued soon after it first appeared as being what was called a rather "odd kind of science." It was considered odd in that it only explained things retrosepctively but could not predict what would happen in the future. This was quite different from, say a Newtonian kind of science that could provide explanations working both forwards and backwards in time.
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