Why human reproduction is so damn inefficient...

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In most mammals, sex is a well-oiled machine. The female ovulates and sends out signals that’s she’s fertile, the male mounts her from behind, the male ejaculates, and—bada bing, bada boom—a pregnancy. 
For humans, however, sex is a whole lot more complicated. We have elaborate courtship rituals, testing each other’s ability to be good partners through Tinder swiping and movie dates. We can bond with one partner for years and years, even after we’ve raised children. We have sex whenever we darn well please, not just around ovulation. In fact, most human women don’t even know when we’re ovulating! All of this romantic and sexual fun takes a lot of energy, and doesn’t even necessarily result in pregnancy. With the natural world a rat race to reproduce, you might think that this system is a little inefficient. 
Some scientists actually argue it’s actually better that humans don’t time sex specifically around ovulation: by lowering our chances of reproducing, and using sex to bond with our partners rather than just reproduce, we can focus on building strong relationships.

Also interestingly, while most humans like to change up our sex positions for fun, other mammals only have sex from behind, with the male mounting the female. The fact that human beings evolved to also have sex facing each other shows that sex isn’t just about a chemical desire for orgasm—though orgasms are pretty great, too. Human sex is special because it’s about both reproduction and pleasure, about hormonal horniness and intimate communication.
That's Glow ways of letting you know that while it may seem like a chore - try your hardest to feel the intimacy of making a baby. After all, you are the product of a thousands of years of evolution.

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Ok thanks for the article.... but can we just talk about where this mans hands are. We get it girl. Smile on sister. ❤️ 👏

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I agree, but it still doesn’t make it any easier when trying to have a baby!

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That doesn’t explain why it’s so hard for some people

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Missed the most awful snd main point. 50 percent of human eggs are chromodomally abnormal so do not implant and miscarry and sperm are dumb and die in hundreds of millions.

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If you think about it, it's a natural population control, since humans are so long lived, advance compared to other life on this planet and can and are creating so much destruction it keeps our population down, well before we learned how to track/time ovulation that is.
It also means we (generally) take better care of and invest more in our children, in raising them to adulthood (success), protecting them, providing for them etc than other species, after all, two protective parents is better than one. 
If you look at it all from an evolutionary perspective it all makes perfect sense.

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Im already 53 yrs old and my partner is 30 yes old . We want to have a baby but cannit conceived what will i do

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Correct thanks for this write up I have learned allot today

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Loved reading this

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This article excludes every relationship that is not between a cisgender man and a cisgender woman. I find it deeply offensive that there is no mention of homosexual, queer and other non-traditional relationships and how that impacts sex.