Do humans need to be taught about sex?

From the above link (I’m pretty sure it’s fake, but The Mirror (UK) is also carrying the story, although that’s hardly an endorsement for a story).

Would a population of humans who lived out “in the wild” so to speak naturally know how to procreate, or would the population need to be taught by older generations?

I think in this case it proves more about dogma and religion’s ability to brainwash and eliminate all traces of natural man.

Actually, people DID live in the wild for a lot longer than they didn’t, and they managed to figure out the logistics. I agree with Devilsknew…sexual urges can be programmed out of a person’s make-up.

Evidently:

You see, out in the wild, people like that wouldn’t have sex, wouldn’t have children, and therefore evolution would take a tiny tiny step forwards.

Seriously, I think most normal humans in the wild would have no trouble figuring out sex. After all, it feels really good.

I would think that people living “in the wild” would have the examples of animals having sex to, um, inspire them.

Also, if some percentage of the population couldn’t figure out sex, they simply wouldn’t have reproduced, and we are all descendants of the remainder.

But wait…it depends on what you mean by “know how to procreate”. I would think your adverage hetrosexual couple “in the wild” would figure out reproductive sex…the whole point is it’s about instinct, right :slight_smile: ?

But whether they’d figure out the link is not so certain. it’s not that obvious, after all. For one thing, for humans, even most of our potentially reproductive sex is not going to be reproductive. People have speculated that early socities didn’t get the connection…and when they did it was a major shift in human society. Of course, people speculate all kinds of things :D.

That said, I doubt the article for the opposite reason. I think if you’re taught to be supisious of pleasure and you’re own body, you might not figure out intercourse. But even the most anti-sex comunity is usually pro-baby. So I’d think somebody would have explained it to them in the eight years.

This couple obviously needs to learn how to turn on the TV… its all there for anyone to learn ! Close the bible and watch more TV !

The master speaks: When did mankind figure out that sex = babies?

I’ve read another write-up on this incident and it appears the couple has had sex, but didn’t get the link between sex and reproduction.

And they didn’t have sex very often, and you typically percentage-wise need sex fairly regularly when you are trying to get pregnant.

From a certain wise source. :smiley:

I cannot begin to tell you how wrong this assumption is.

I got pregnant just reading a thread like this once!

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lol, whoops. mods want to fix that for me?