Just be glad we didn’t evolve the same sensibilities as dogs. I’d find it inconvenient to bend down all the time and sniff people’s butts.

A long time ago, IAMS pet food had some commercials that had humans behaving as animals, including two businessmen (suits, briefcases, etc.) ’sniffing’ each other, though they tended more toward ’sniffing each other’s backs’.. and the woman stretched out on the back of the couch (yes, on TOP of the back of the couch) was also hilarious.

I also wonder about kissing as possibly deriving from breastfeeding as an infant….

J/P=?

Why would mashing your lips against someone else’s be of any use? Or brushing their cheek with your lips? And licking? Really?

Well you know, Phil, sex wouldn’t be what it is without the wetness. Without the fluids, and I mean ALL the fluids, it would be like sandpapers grating against each other.

My philosophy.

P.S., those two lads in the picture look like twins.

as a human, of course, I am an Olympic medalist

You’re an Olympic medalist? Er, which decade was that?

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Now on to business. To tell the truth, when I saw the picture that came along with your article, I suspected that the subject may have something to do with Franklin Kameny. I read about Mr. Kameny the other day (here) and couldn’t help but wonder if you timed your article with the DC Pride Festival that honored him.

I was going to write the same thing. The context is: due to the fact that humans are born
as essentially embryos and spend a long time with their parents, the social bond between
parents and children is important. This bond later gets transferred to other adults during
love starting around puberty. Many aspects of the former are appropriated for the latter.
Kissing might arise from mouth-to-mouth feeding. What were the cavemothers to do with
no baby food, no spoons etc?

“the result was that instead of social delousing humans had to start to fondle each other in more ritualistic manner.”

This is actually the reason acne evolved, and why it occurs in puberty, just when one is
searching for a partner for the first time. Watch two apes de-lousing each other, then
watch two humans squeezing out each other’s pimples and blackheads. It is exactly the
same behaviour. If you think your best friend will be jealous when you have sex with his
wife, just wait for his reaction when he learns she has been squeezing out your blackheads!