The evolutionary need of masturbation.
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I guess everybody thought of it sometime (if not, at least I did many times). What can possibly be the benefit for masturbation??
So I put up the start of my theory.
Humans, unlike many other mammals, are ready to reproduce (as in make a woman pregnant) at any day of the year. We are in 'heat' all the year. But being in heat means you're horny every day of the year. And, as probably everybody knows, your hormones get dominant when you're horny. You start to look at things at a different way and most of the time you're hormones tend to get in the way of rational thinking and, due to that, of normal functioning.
How to get (temporarily) rid of those hormones? By ejaculating.
But how many men have a wife (or more every day, even though that isn't what I prefer) that are willing to make love (at least one time) every day? Well not many probably. And that's where your sexual need gets in conflict with what you can get. You are ready to reproduce every day, but you can't. So in order to keep thinking normally you had to solve the problem of your hormones.
Then probably a long time ago, those who didn't masturbate were stuck with the hormones, couldn't think normally and were an easy prey for predetaors or kept getting accidents. Those who did masturbate on the other hand (literally), could think normally and kept out of trouble (with predetors and accidents). That way the ones who did masturbate survived and that's why we masturbate today still.
I also believe it's a matter of 'freshness' of your sperm. The fresher the more fertile. (that's based on nearly nothing though).
That's what I thought up last night. More theory's are more than welcome. I'd like to get to the bottom of this.
So I put up the start of my theory.
Humans, unlike many other mammals, are ready to reproduce (as in make a woman pregnant) at any day of the year. We are in 'heat' all the year. But being in heat means you're horny every day of the year. And, as probably everybody knows, your hormones get dominant when you're horny. You start to look at things at a different way and most of the time you're hormones tend to get in the way of rational thinking and, due to that, of normal functioning.
How to get (temporarily) rid of those hormones? By ejaculating.
But how many men have a wife (or more every day, even though that isn't what I prefer) that are willing to make love (at least one time) every day? Well not many probably. And that's where your sexual need gets in conflict with what you can get. You are ready to reproduce every day, but you can't. So in order to keep thinking normally you had to solve the problem of your hormones.
Then probably a long time ago, those who didn't masturbate were stuck with the hormones, couldn't think normally and were an easy prey for predetaors or kept getting accidents. Those who did masturbate on the other hand (literally), could think normally and kept out of trouble (with predetors and accidents). That way the ones who did masturbate survived and that's why we masturbate today still.
I also believe it's a matter of 'freshness' of your sperm. The fresher the more fertile. (that's based on nearly nothing though).
That's what I thought up last night. More theory's are more than welcome. I'd like to get to the bottom of this.
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A hypothesis, really.
Now that you have that, go talk to a scientist that studies evolutionary psychology who will tell you that you have a cool story, but testing such a hypothesis is extremely unlikely, let alone verifying it. Good luck with that.
Noam Chomsky noted: "You find that people cooperate, you say, †˜Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, †˜Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."
Now that you have that, go talk to a scientist that studies evolutionary psychology who will tell you that you have a cool story, but testing such a hypothesis is extremely unlikely, let alone verifying it. Good luck with that.
Wikipedophilia wrote...
Critics assert that many hypotheses put forward to explain the adaptive nature of human behavioural traits are "Just-so stories"; neat adaptive explanations for the evolution of given traits that do not rest on any evidence beyond their own internal logic.Noam Chomsky noted: "You find that people cooperate, you say, †˜Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, †˜Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."
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shinji_ikari
Mustn't Run Away...
Rbz wrote...
A hypothesis, really.Now that you have that, go talk to a scientist that studies evolutionary psychology who will tell you that you have a cool story, but testing such a hypothesis is extremely unlikely, let alone verifying it. Good luck with that.
Wikipedophilia wrote...
Critics assert that many hypotheses put forward to explain the adaptive nature of human behavioural traits are "Just-so stories"; neat adaptive explanations for the evolution of given traits that do not rest on any evidence beyond their own internal logic.Noam Chomsky noted: "You find that people cooperate, you say, †˜Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, †˜Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."
Much better wording then what I would have used but x2 for the above post
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Reaper_69 wrote...
So caveman used to jerk off to keep the dinosaurs away..That's what I got from the storyROFL.
Eddo wrote...
You start to look at things at a different way and most of the time you're hormones tend to get in the way of rational thinking and, due to that, of normal functioning.How to get (temporarily) rid of those hormones? By ejaculating.
I haven't jacked off in a week, and I feel fine, so this may not be true.
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I do notice that super religious type persons seem to be a bit uptight and high strung some times. it could be because their beliefes forbid masterbation so they don't get the chemical and hormonal benifits of regular sexual release.
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Eddo wrote...
I also believe it's a matter of 'freshness' of your sperm. The fresher the more fertile. (that's based on nearly nothing though).You don't have to worry about "fresh" sperm. If it doesn't get used it gets pissed out every few days.
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There is no evolutionary need for masturbation. Not getting your rocks off doesn't leave getting eaten by a tiger as the default option.
There is, however, an evolutionary need for sex to be pleasurable (so that all the little bunnies, humans, cats and so forth will go make more copies of themselves). Given that it is pleasurable, we want to do it all the time; even when alone. Therefore, masturbation. It's a side effect of evolution, not a survival strategy.
There is, however, an evolutionary need for sex to be pleasurable (so that all the little bunnies, humans, cats and so forth will go make more copies of themselves). Given that it is pleasurable, we want to do it all the time; even when alone. Therefore, masturbation. It's a side effect of evolution, not a survival strategy.
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animefreak_usa
Child of Samael
maxyojimbo wrote...
There is no evolutionary need for masturbation. Not getting your rocks off doesn't leave getting eaten by a tiger as the default option.There is, however, an evolutionary need for sex to be pleasurable (so that all the little bunnies, humans, cats and so forth will go make more copies of themselves). Given that it is pleasurable, we want to do it all the time; even when alone. Therefore, masturbation. It's a side effect of evolution, not a survival strategy.
If that true would do you explain virgin beardnecks that want not to be with a woman and now whacking it to hentai then real women.
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Takerial
Lovable Teddy Bear
You're putting too much thought into this.
We do it so much because it feels good.
We do it so much because it feels good.
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Sex feels good, there for mastrubation feels good, there for people masturbate.
And the reason why sex feels good can be illustrated with this question:
If we had two kinds of humans, those who enjoyed sex and those that did not, who would have more children?
And the reason why sex feels good can be illustrated with this question:
If we had two kinds of humans, those who enjoyed sex and those that did not, who would have more children?
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A long time ago, human beings were a whole lot more primitive than they are now. If they wanted to act on their hormones, I think they would've gone straight to mating already, regardless of the consequences, instead of just masturbation.
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Kiss-Shot
Soba-Scans Staff
I'd say there's no evolutionary need for it. Some dude put his hand around his cock, started moving it about and realized it felt good, and so a generation of fappers were born.
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People masturbate because some dude from some time period with AIDS was shaking a ketchup bottle naked to get it to come out and the bottle slipped out and was replaced by the dude's dick. He kept on shaking, furiously, and got a white substance. He tasted it and was disgusted, so he just put the rest in his burger which to his surprise tasted like if Chuck Norris had sex with a parallel Chuck Norris (because you need a Norris to tame another Norris) and their collaborative liquids had become the burger the guy was eating. He realized he needed a name for this ball-sploding sauce. He was a man. He had AIDS. Man.....AIDS..Man...AIDS. Man-AIDS. MannoAIDS. Mayonnaise! That's it! He was going to call his sauce mayonnaise!
tl;dr People jack off for the creation of food condiments.
tl;dr People jack off for the creation of food condiments.
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I would recommend you to first educate yourself on a topic before you try to put up any "theories". I do not want to offend you or anything, but why do you think people study for years and work day and night if you (with hardly any knowledge about biology as it seems) can just as well "be a scientist"?
a) you do not "get rid of hormones" by wanking.
b) sperm in the testicles dies anyways after ~7 days.
c) our ancestors had a lot of things to worry about, and no time for "leisure time wanking".
d) we are living in a world that is advertising sex, but most people have so little.
e) our ancestors did not live in a monogamous society. everyone f*cked everyone.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-phallus
f) it seems to me that you are just looking for an excuse for wanking more than your should (in your own opinion).
a) you do not "get rid of hormones" by wanking.
b) sperm in the testicles dies anyways after ~7 days.
c) our ancestors had a lot of things to worry about, and no time for "leisure time wanking".
d) we are living in a world that is advertising sex, but most people have so little.
e) our ancestors did not live in a monogamous society. everyone f*cked everyone.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-phallus
f) it seems to me that you are just looking for an excuse for wanking more than your should (in your own opinion).
