are humans the only animal that gets pleasure out of sex?
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Regardless of what our opinions are, we have no way of knowing what any other animal's emotions are regarding sex-We have no idea if they feel pleasure, because we can't define that in other animals.  Other animals certainly feel compelled to have sex, and afterwards generally display behaviours associated with relaxation and satisfaction (such as is seen after eating a large meal).  But to say we know whether an animal is feeling pleasure gives us a lot more credit for understanding the inner workings of other animals than we deserve.
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Of course all ‘higher’ animals enjoy having sex of course. Do you think they do it because they have rationalised that several months later the act will result in puppies?\n\n‘Lower’ animals like fish or invertebrates probably don’t enjoy it. It’s just a preprogrammed instinct and about as enjoyable as a washing machine going through a spin cycle.\n\n\nI have no idea where this myth that only dolphins and apes have sex for fun comes from. Quite clearly humans are the only species of mammal that has sex for any reason except for fun.\n\nWhile some humans will have sex for reproduction or out of obligation even if they don't or can't enjoy it no mammlas have that capability.
922676
Hmmm...someone said pigs have orgasms that last for 30 minutes.  That is awfully tempting...
1066258
Darwin's theory of evolution isn't so fickle an idea that it can be disowned by some horny sheep.  Most animals that show homosexual behavior, still mate and breed heterosexually.  Sex feels good to animals too.  And sometimes, sex is just sex.
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No its natural for someone to have sex its human nature
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Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. It can refer to excitation either by oneself or by another (see mutual masturbation). It is part of a larger set of activities known as autoeroticism, which also includes the use of sex toys and non-genital stimulation. There are also masturbation machines used to simulate intercourse. Masturbation and sexual intercourse are the two most common sexual practices, but they are not mutually exclusive (for example, many people find the sight of their partner masturbating highly erotic). Some people are able to achieve orgasm only through masturbation and not sexual intercourse. In the animal kingdom, masturbation has been observed in many mammalian species, both in the wild and in captivity.
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Only 10 percent of all animals in the animal kingdom mate for life, so the odds against humans being monogamous.And love has nothing to do with sex,as the worlds oldest professions can attest to!
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That doesn't sound right, if they're talking about critters that have sexual intercourse at all (as opposed to procreating other ways).\n\nI would think that most females have, as males aren't all that choosy about where they donate their sperm.\n\nToo bad you don't say where you got this. I mean, besides "the net" -- oh, THERE, that tiny place.\n\n;-)\n\nUnless it's more a comment on life expectancy, saying that most critters die before they have a chance to, well, you know.\n\nSo, where'd you come across this tidbit, what animals are included in the statistic, and why would this be?\n\n(I'll check back in hopes you respond.)\n\nEdit: You may (if you're interested enough) want to troll around newscientist.com and similar sites. New Scientist is the UK's version of Scientific American -- the site has science news, and search facility (though you have to pay to access everything, they do have a lot available for non-subscribers).\n\nI may give it a go next time I'm there.\n\nTrouble is, coming from a non-expert (that is, a psychologist), I wonder if this is one of those non-facts that gets picked up and repeated and is completely wrong.\n\nThough, if you include all animals, including insects, then maybe. Relatively few bees and ants, for example, have sex, and they'd account for a big proportion of "all animals."\n\nIn which case it's completely irrelevant to a discussion of human sexuality.
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No, having sex as a form of entertainment is purely a human behavior. The man might feel unsatisfied but ultimatly, its all in your head.
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Our understanding of the emotion love is limited.  I do not believe that animals can fall in love with people in the traditional sense of the word.  Animals can have an affection for people, but our understanding of that affection is questionable at best.
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Well yes Monkeys does masturbate...\n\nBut do you know that MAN or HUMAN is the only animal in the world that have sex with the same species... male male and female female.. Well that's the Fact.
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They're the only animals on earth (other than humans) that have sex for pleasure. How much more intelligent could you get? :D
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Animals cannot get the same stds that people get.  Human STDs are specific to us - that includes crabs.  Crabs evolved to hold onto human hair - not fur, which has a different structure.  Things like human herpes, HPV, syphillis, etc. also have evolved to affect only human hosts.  \n\nThere are STDs that affect animals though.  They cannot transmit them to us and we cannot transmit our to them.  \n\nEven plants have diseases that are tranmitted through pollenation - which is one form of plant sexuality!\n\nAnimals can transmit Hepatitis A, salmonella and other infectious diseases - but they are not considered stds.\n\nAnimals cannot get HIV because that is HUMAN immunodeficiency virus.  Some animals (like cats, monkeys, apes, and others) do have immunodeficency viruses, but they are not transmittable to us and we can't get theirs.\n\nAlthough some animals share about 90-95% of the same genes as we do - that 10 to 5% is still a huge amount of genes that we don't share.
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myths such as this were common in medical literature 100 years ago.  now its thought that orgasm (which can be achieved via masturbation) can enhance the immune system.  These myths were rooted more in religious and cultural ideology than in any kind of scientific study.  \nhuman brains are hardwired to enjoy sex, alone or with others.  How else would have our species survived?
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Giraffes dont have the same type of orgasm as a human does. The only animals that experience orgasms in the way WE think of it are us, great apes (chimps, gorillas, orangs,) and dolphins. \n\nWeird question you asked but thers the answer.
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Nature tells us that homosexuality exists.  Are humans animals?  Are there homosexual humans?  Ergo...?\n\nThe fact that you have not quoted sources is of no consequence to me -- I am willing to take at face value that perhaps the cattle and lizards were setting domination patterns. I am curious as to how the motives of the lizards were determined to be "to humilate"?\n\nty kinney, of course, makes terrfic sense about the differences beetween humans and other animals and would worth be re-reading.  \n\nOf course, without any applicable citation, which would seem to be fairly easy to find, your insistence on the behavior of cattle weakens the argument, particularly when you assert such detail as "the male/male behavior documented never culminates it penetration! therefore it is not sexual in nature."  From your reaction to other posts, I assume you're after some sort of penetration?\n\nI must point out that an insistence on male/male penetration omits other non-dominance behaviors practiced by other animal species, such as courtship. \n\nTREE SWALLOWS:  Full cloacal contact has been observed by Wilson and Bull in  male Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), complete with  the “ticking” vocalizations which are apparently reserved for  heterosexual copulations in Tree Swallows.  They also note that dominance behaior among Tree Swallows is very different.\n\nLIZARD: A. carolinensis engage in both homosexual courtship and copulation -- with one male exhibiting the male behavior in courting being the mounter and the male exhibiting the female courtship behavior being mounted. Previous studies (Noble and Bradley in 1937) dismissed this as hierarchical behavior, but more recent observations (Cooper, 1977, and Sigmund, 1987) show a more thorough understanding of A. carolinensis society, including polygamy and consistent homosexual behavior in the absence of dominant males.\n\nBISON: Courtship, mounting, and full anal penetration between bulls is common among American bison. My Lakota brothers and sisters call them pte winkte —pte =bison and winkte is the word for two-spirit, their description of the transgendered  in their Nation.\n\nFEMALE CATTLE:  Mounting of female cattle in heat by other cows is common among domesticated cattle.  (Obviously, since no marital aids have been documented, no actual penetration occured.)  The same has not been observed among wild cattle in a study by Queensland College in Australia.  Although stress was cited by the observers, they also admitted the possibility of domestication as a factor -- so perhaps civilization figures into it.\n\nBONOBOS: Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann observed same-sex genital contacts in wild female bonobos.  They have already been mentioned here, I just thought I would give the citation, even though no penetration happened.\n\nZOO ANIMALS: The penguins, koalas, rabbits and others that have been documented as exhibiting homosexual behaviors have most often come from zoos or domesticated situations.  This does not necessarily indicate a corrupted or aberrant social system, but (Occam's Razor) they can be more easily observed.\n\nHYENAS: Actually, Ploss and Bartels have seen hyenas licking each other's genitals.  Hyenas are of particular interest in this discussion because, according the Bestiary of Barnabus, hyenas were believed to have predominantly homosexual sex, and were associated with homosexuals.  This view was strongly held in the time of Augustine, who was a zealot advocate of conversion.
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actually, dolphins are the only other animal besides humans who enjoy sex. i was watching the discovery channel and these nasty dolphins were raping a baby orca whale. i cried