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Gorillas are faster What sex for? That's what the author Christian Göldenboog wanted to know from biologists. Answer: In order to improve mankind By Joachim Bessing, Berliner Morgenpost, May 7th, 2006 So that's where we are now, where all the thinking about simplifying your life, outsourcing and downsizing has brought us: "Why sex?" asks the title of a book that has just been published by Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. Not a novel, not even a book of poetry: a non-fiction book, written in a thoroughly well-founded way. The author, Christian Göldenboog, is a champagne expert in his main job, was a shot putter and film critic and, in his own words, practices "cheerful science". In the combination of stimulants, weight training and cultural assets, the meaning of sex is also described quite accurately. Who wants to ask about the purpose of the maneuver? In view of our culture, in which it's all about better sex, exciting sex, sexy clothes, horny guys - in short, the act itself, pleasure and sport, it's easy to forget that the spectacle, with all the pleasure, also has a task underlying. The enjoyment of it should be the incentive to procreate. However, a lot of effort is put into avoiding this. It is therefore often in "Why sex?" about the animals. Of course, sex is primarily used by animals to reproduce. Whether they enjoy it or not is not known. In addition, no contraceptives are available to animals. That the 60-second sexual intercourse among gorillas (one reason why the porn version of "King Kong" was never filmed) - or the twelve-hour one of the marsupial mice would be initiated "just for fun": hard to imagine if you can endure the complicated and often violent courtship rituals of the animal world. Although? Göldenboog has the original formula “Eggs are expensive, sperm cheap” as to why it is still so difficult for human males to get a female around to have fun together (western average duration: 4.5 minutes). Which describes the fact that women produce about 400 eggs during their reproductive years. Men, on the other hand, waste 400 million semen threads with every ejaculation - and that, mind you, without a built-in expiry date; the man's biological clock runs until death. This unfair distribution between the sexes is well suited to clarifying the fundamental difficulties between men and women: the man is a spendthrift who need not worry about his supplies. The woman manages a comparatively small supply, she has to economize. Applied to the choice of partner, this means that she is picky. If you follow Göldenboog's entertaining explanations, this is a pattern engraved into the female behavior pattern that still applies and prevails today. Although there are contraceptives and "sex for fun" is actually possible. Perhaps this is also the reason why many men do not want to have children these days: They are somewhat harshly described as refusal to procreate - but is it not just as conceivable that this is a weapon in the battle between the sexes? Courting the eggs may have been appealing when women's career aspirations consisted solely of "mother." Now that women are becoming rivals on the job market and - as in Germany - family policy is considering "re-educating" men to be part-time mothers, men are making themselves scarce, he is stingy with his abundance of sperm - ultimately: being courted for himself to become. "Why Sex?" presents a beneficial counter-position: for a change, it is not about fertility as a people's duty; and unlike Schirrmacher, the author does not condemn all those women who find a life with sex but without children appealing. Göldenboog's dimension, which he develops from his conversations with renowned biologists, is apolitical, but scientific: it still remains a mystery why we have to reproduce in such a complicated way, why we need an alien other instead of - like that of the plants overheard dream of cloning: being able to multiply ourselves without each other. The imaginative attempts to think of alternatives testify to the fact that the inconveniences and problems of mating caused frustration in earlier times: According to the Bible, the first human being is made of clay, the second is carved from the rib of the first. The Greek Plato invented the first human being as a round thing with four hands, four feet and two faces, which was eventually split in two by the gods so that twice as many people could make themselves useful on earth. This perhaps inspired the Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley in the 18th century to cut a freshwater polyp in two, which promptly resulted in two healthy creatures - the spade still does the same with the earthworm. If our reproductive method were actually like this, there would hardly be anyone who wanted to do it "for fun"! Not sex fatigue directly, but giving up children probably has more serious consequences than is currently believed and feared. Thus Göldenboog shows that precisely the complexity of our reproduction method is the miracle cure, which is why mankind has not yet died out: faulty developments are corrected over generations through the constant combination of female and male hereditary factors. Even changes in the environment, the climate or new diseases are taken into account in the evolutionary copying processes. However, freezing seeds and eggs today will not solve the current difficulties in the distant future. This requires living propagators who experience such damage firsthand in order to be able to repair it in future generations. It is said that there is already an increasing proportion of people who are immune to the HI virus. People of this type will have a great advantage in the future. You will be able to move around uninhibitedly and unprotected. Your genes prevail. But of course, such improvement of humanity through sex only works if children jump out of it. Otherwise, it stays around 4.5 minutes with a lot of noise. And afterwards one or the other may actually ask themselves: "Why?"
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