Non native speaker 🙃.
Are we the unique specie that is always horny or there are others?
Also why the arrive of the “horniess” is that early, 11.17 yo for males and 12.6 yo for females (Means from this paper: Timing of Puberty and Sexuality in Men and Women by Ostovich & Sabini , 2005) I mean this totally make sense for us boys, if you star having sex soon probably you will have more descendants, but this don’t have any benefits (beside is a funny feeling…) for females, Is not the twenties the ideal ages to have babys?
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Wow. What a way to put it.
I WISH everyone was always in heat lol.
We aren’t. But i understand what you are asking.
Animals go into heat. There are many reasons for this, but I can summarize them as saying, when you are part of the food chain, it’s really not a good idea to be caught “with your pants down”. That’s why animals will go into heat periodically when it is “generally safer” to be messing around. The more communal an animal is, the more likely they will be fertile at the same time, like penguins.
Humans however, are a different animal all together. First, remember that for thousands of years, life expectancy was.. like.. 30 years. Humans needed to have as many children as possible as often as possible just to survive.
Additionally, there’s sapience. As our brains grew, the need to be FORCED into sex by instinct lessened.. sex became more and more a conscious decision and not an instinctive one. With no natural predators and intelligence we could choose when to have sex.. and even better, our genitals don’t need to turn bright red!
We are not “always in heat”. We are NEVER in heat. We just don’t need it.
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