when did we invent 'good sex' as a concept? Animals don't seem to have any differentiation in quality of sex beyond is-it-consensual-or-not.
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Biologist William Eberhard has written a couple of books on 'postcopulatory female choice', which means females are choosing for the quality and vigor of copulation before deciding whether to use a male's sperm.
Surprisingly common in insects and mammals.
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I’m not sure about the consent part. Animal reproduction really looks mostly like rape. Humans made a distinction about that a while back, probably around the time we started getting into kink, which was…when?
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Some of it looks like rape, and some doesn't! A really clear example is orangutans, where the females clearly want to mate with the flanged males and clearly don't want to mate with the unflanged ones.
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other animals certainly do have preferred sexual partners, presumably aligned with their own concepts of "good"
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but is this good 'sex' or is it a good 'partner'? Like, good genes, dominant, able to protect offspring, provide resources, etc.? I assume they're doing mate selection based on that, not how much feel-good the peen provides
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Well, quantifying stuff is kinda our thing. So we have mediocre food vs good food, and then fine dining. "That looks interesting" and then art that overwhelms is. Recognizing degrees of everything is pretty fundemental.
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