The ultraDarwinian enterprise is to explain all basic biological
facts via evolutionary
theory. That is certainly a
worthy and fruitful research-program, but cannot well be taken for a theorem.
In a chapter entitled “Why do we smoke, drink, and use
dangerous drugs?”, a well-respected author writes:
This old evolutionary framework has
gone awry in us.
-- Jared Diamond, The Rise and
Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (1991), p. 172
It is none of our purpose here to evaluate or criticize his
argument: vide op. cit. Presumably
the notion of superstimulus is here
in point
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus ).
I cite the passage only because of its striking parallel to
earlier contributions by C. S. Lewis (along with more cryptic remarks by G. K.
Chesteron) to the effect that something appears to be broken in human sexuality. Wide-ranging discussion here:
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