The sole function of sex these days was recreational; babies were conceived in the laboratory.
His logic, never explicitly stated, seems to be that when the superficial procreative function of sex is conceptually demoted, the real significance of sex will be revealed.
Breaking with religious teachings that the sole function of sex ought to be procreation and that any other erotic pursuit was sinful, Reich offered a new and defiantly humanist perspective, asserting that sexual pleasure was beneficial — indeed, necessary — to human flourishing, and that, when it came to orgasms, the more the merrier.
…the function of sex, and the reason that most animals and plants invest enormous energy in sex, is the limitation of disease (p. 366).
"The finding turns our view of the function of sex by 180 degrees," says microbial geneticist Joseph Heitman of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
As an evolutionary force, it can be at the origin no less than sexual reproduction itself: …the function of sex, and the reason that most animals and plants invest enormous energy in sex, is the limitation of disease (p. 366).
The objectives of this study were to examine for the first time the prevalence of visual impairment and blindness among adults in Spain, to explore regional differences, and to assess whether they may vary as a function of sex or be explained by age and individual or regional socioeconomic position.
The competing models to explain the adaptive function of sex were reviewed by Birdsell and Wills.
The adaptive function of sex, today, remains a major unresolved issue in biology.
For example, one of the major unresolved problems in biology is the primary adaptive function of sex, and particularly its key processes in eukaryotes, meiosis and homologous recombination.
In their efforts to control the reproductive function of sex and to ensure legitimacy (as defined by any particular culture) there is an underlying fear of sexual energy because of the possible ways sexuality may be expressed by individuals.
