Sex and Culture Term Paper

Sex and Culture

What are the advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction (animal/human world)?

Sexual reproduction is an evolutionary phenomenon, which entails the cooperation of two species: the male and the female. In any aspect of sexual reproduction, the energy of male spermatozoa and the female oocyte must both be expended in order to reproduce, as opposed to the efficient method of asexual reproduction, which only involves the singular (female) organism. Furthermore, sexual reproduction has a failing in that humans and animals tend to reproduce much less than organisms that reproduce asexually. However, this evolutionary method of reproduction allows for genetic variation and adaptable feasibility. The offspring of the sexually reproductive parents will have gained half of the mother's genetic characteristics and half of the father's genetic characteristics. Genetic variation increases the immunity against otherwise deadly genetic diseases.

Is the capacity that female primates have for orgasm detrimental to their reproductive success?

On the contrary, the female primates' orgasms are also another evolutionary process that attempt to encourage physical bonding with the male species.Not only does the female orgasm attempt to reinforce the bonding, her orgasm encourages a pleasurable quality that attracts males in a way. Many other theories regarding the female primate orgasm also includes the increase in fertility when a female orgasms. A male orgasm allows for the ejaculation of sperm into the female orifice; the female's orgasm in turn contracts and speeds up the sperm's travel toward the egg. The contractions within a female during orgasm also helps keep the semen inside the body.

3) What are the connections between bipedal posture and the loss of estrus in our species?

Bipedalism and the estrus cycle are more obviously connected within the day-to-day environs of female primates. As far as physiological properties go, females lose their….....