I don't see how they can say it has no purpose. I mena, you see the purpose of orgasm - both male and female - in chimpanzees: sex acts, especially particualarly pleasurable ones, help in the formation of emotional bonds between sexually mature members of a social group.

Sorry if this seems like a strange comment. It's just that I've done a bit of perfunctory research into mating habits of our primate cousins in my quest to find a context for human sexuality.

It lead me to a simple conclusion: there are two types of sex.

1: Sex for procreation. Obviously, this can only occur between sexually mature males and females.

2: Sex for pleasure and social bonding. This can take place between any two or more sexually mature people. I stress sexually mature, and the sex act (in both cases) when performed with a sexually immature (and this includes the emotional aspect of maturity) individual creates an absurdly uneven power dynamic which can mentally and emotionally scar the "lesser" partner.

*phew*

Yeah, I know it's long winded, but this is the kind of thinking one goes through as an atheist trying to make sense of morality.

I would like to know the name of the sweet thang who is modeling your t-shirt in the sidebar and who she is. She's very pretty and very attractive. Thanks.

You might like to know that the House Armed Services Committee is introducing the ban on women in combat units today.

Hey Popeye, this isn't a dating service.

How dominant ideas and mindsets affect what we do is forgotten. The central idea of our civilization is the notion of business logic and efficiency and economic rationality. It has significant merits, but does not tap the complexities of human behaviour. Its ideas provide the warp on which the patterns of our behaviour are encouraged to be woven. It affects the language we use and the discourse of public affairs. It entraps us, however much we talk of ‘thinking outside the box’.

So there are often surprises when people do not behave ‘logically’. Cold economic logic is coupled with the rise of managerialism, with its colourless, grey, neutralized language of process that has little flavour or energy. Not surprisingly, civic engagement and connection is in decline. The managerial logic spills over into other domains that traditionally worked on different principles, such as ethics, morality, justice, voluntary work and the idea of the public. Yet discussion of such concepts is now shaped by the language of ‘efficiency’. Because ‘efficiency’, when narrowly defined, seems to work by definition, it is a given.

But it favours means over ends and process over broader ambitions. When efficiency is itself the end, it strips out other life values, creating as many problems as it solves by promoting short-term thinking.