Only humans can have sex in order to get pregnant. Animals have sex for pleasure. So saying the meaning of sex is reproduction is seeing this from a very narrow evolutionary perspective. Behaviorally speaking, reproduction is only the meaning of sex for educated humans who are trying to get pregnant.
ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā who the ā ā ā ā is shooting us!!!
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Other way around 
Dolphins are the only animal theyāre sure have sex for pleasureā¦the other ones have sex strictly out of instinct. Thereās other animals suspected to have sex for pleasure too though
Animals donāt have knowledge of procreation. Of course they have sex for pleasure. They get pleasure from following their instincts and having sex. If they didnāt get pleasure from following their instincts they would slowly stop following them. Itās basic behavioral psychology. And they have no idea it leads to pregnancy.
Wellā¦ sex is actually painful for a lot of crittersā¦ catās for one thingā¦ the male part is barbed and hooks itself inā¦
but uhh as far as sensoryā¦ liek the human pleasure is about nerve-endings in the skin that give us a heightened sense of feeling and regarding where those nerves lead a sense of pleasure via dopamine and oxytocin releaseā¦ i mean these evolutionary systems did start developing somewhere along the lineā¦ but I think for more animals itās about the hormonal effects that their bodies crave rather than the activity itselfā¦ but it varies from species to speciesā¦
Iām inclined to trust science and take to the perspective we are all machines and this current state of things is just what has evolved to best survive so farā¦ their really arenāt any rules in thatā¦ itās just kind of luck.
Instinct driven animals are a bit closer to the programmed machine side of the spectrum of complexity, while humans with our abstractions of reality might need extra motivation to waste energy, risk getting that close to something potentially conniving, even getting ourselves into a situation where we must provideā¦
However that same pleasure makes humans do some very evil thingsā¦ and sadly there being no ārules from aboveā so to speakā¦ those evils act often assure more reproduction and the continuance of genetically originating abstracts with the slight predisposition or altered instinctual sense to either partake in those acts or notā¦
I donāt even fuggen knowā¦ real crazy thoughā¦ microbes are asexualā¦ thatās complex enough as it isā¦ then they began sexually reproducingā¦ and the genders developed? itās fascinating ā ā ā ā thatās for sure.
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Iām oversimplifying things, sorry. More developed animals will need pleasure as a reward to keep wanting to have sex. All advanced behavior is in my opinion subject to learning effects, and therefore more developed animals will have evolved pleasure from sex as a behavioral reinforcement. Insects or simpler animals, and possibly a few others, would not necessarily benefit from that kind of reinforcement.
(It would be interesting to see some study on how many nerve endings some animals have in their sexual organs compared to other placesā¦)
I have yet to see ANY animal āteachā their young in sex.
In the broad perspective we fell short.
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