Why do women have orgasms? Why do men have nipples? (Lucy Cooke)

[@giovannironchi5332]

Hello Michael, Thanks for your effort To greatly increase the ilkelyhood that anyone will listen to the conversation, please add an index with links to the points of the show where certain topics are discussed. I imagine it's a long and tedious process but it greatly helps the enjoyability of the show, imo. Best!

[@infinitemonkey917]

Yes please. I've requested that before.

[@afrodiameter]

+1 to an index with links. It's become table stakes for conversations like these.

[@mike2510]

I’d be curious what her thoughts are regarding Harems and whether there are male harems. In humans, whenever men were in power, they often had multiple lovers, concubines, harems, but female rulers tended not to have these. Also, in polygamous societies, this trend is unidirectional as well. Throughout history, women were content to share males. Males would kill one another rather than share females.

[@vls3771]

True ....however there are many accounts going back to ancient Egypt where the royal girls and women would choose multiple men for there pleasure ...Cleopatra was said to have over 50 men at any given time serving her.

[@globalist1990]

I've heard of some small societies, I think I remember one in Nepal, where women would have more than one "husband", usually brothers or brother-like. When there's hardships and a lot to do just to "keep afloat", it seems like a good deal. But, I think our amygdala doesn't agree with that very well. I feel many men might easily agree with female liberation and women having their own needs and wants, having to deal with other men as part of that freedom is a complete different deal though.

[@vls3771]

Sure the social structures were quite different it was serving rather than relationship but it's interesting to consider how the "mind of a woman" may operate under a more powerful position in society like ancient Egypt .......

[@nekrautistik]

Content? everything you said before said is something but the use of that word makes me wonder what makes you think that.

[@LoveJessicaRyan]

I dare say, she would tell you that she specializes in animals and not humans.

[@daemon9737]

This is great stuff. Thank you both. Favorite part was the conversation around letting go of binary thinking. I think that is key to opening the mind to learning, embracing the gray. Thanks!!

[@twoplanetlife7969]

The second English interviewee in a few weeks who inserts "you know" into every third phrase.

[@homewall744]

If orgasms cause a deeper pair bond, I'm worried for boys and their hands.

[@handyallen]

WTF

[@jeffersonianideal]

Don't despair. They can practice a lot when they're alone, and it's sex with someone they really love.

[@theinnerlight8016]

Not worried for hook up "culture" ruining pair bonding abilities in a whole generation and single mothers being as prevalent as their offspring is prevalent in prisons? Nah, boys and their hands is the issue. Got it. 😂

[@bart234465]

The book is so good and hilarious

[@maxmac7845]

"A thousand thundering thrills await me Facing insurmountable odds gravely The female of the species is more deadlier than the male." Space

[@BNK2442]

So it is confirmed, Pinker is wrong in his pseudoscientific views that women don't commit sexual violence or domestic abuse, and that nonsense he wrote about women pacifying men.

[@jeffersonianideal]

4:26 Darwin’s dictum was rumored to be only slightly above average, but disproportionately effectual.

[@musiqman7]

46:35 - on sperm competition "females influence that in loads of ways". Lmao! Pun intended?

[@shoutingATclouds-btw]

Lucy Cook is off her rocker. AKA, the cat lady.

[@BalloonInTheBalloon]

This is such a great show, very interesting. She's a great guest, only drawback was once I noticed her "You know.." I got overwhelmed :D

[@beephex1]

Pedantic

[@andrewwood7303]

There are limits to how often one should use “you know” and “Err…”

[@beephex1]

@@andrewwood7303 limits are pedantic

[@BalloonInTheBalloon]

@@beephex1 that's how I roll, to me it disrupts the flow

[@beephex1]

@@BalloonInTheBalloon you roll in a pedantic fashion

[@jeffh2166]

Cheerleading Agustin Fuentes suggests she's a total activist mental...you know

[@izzyreel6730]

8:01 how could it not be seen that female choosing is exactly the reason for male display. What would be the point otherwise?

[@TracyPicabia]

No, I don't know !

[@Zoomo2697]

Spot on - "Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out." Gilbert K. Chesterton

[@Garett.1214]

When talking about why there are two sexes. My theory , and this maybe controversial, may have to do with roles in a more complex life form like ours plays. Say if you have a cloning reproduction the idea of protecting you and the young from predators becomes problematic. That’s where a third option that cannot be concerned with child rearing becomes the solution. He in this case becomes the protector/ provider. While she concentrates all her energy on the child.

[@neilclaypoole7529]

Another excellent guest Michael

[@slicersharp]

Wonderful discussion as always, love her usain bolt analogy . Big ups 🇯🇲

[@simonrae3048]

A mine of information. You need to get a theme tune Michael. something deep (sort of ) and meaningless. But you deffo need the punters because you are without doubt the best of this ilk.

[@johnpagoto1054]

Is Lucy on Tinder?

[@jeffersonianideal]

Oh, behave!

[@jasonlongton1876]

The longer she spoke, the less I found her credible. Her excessive use of word fillers (er, um, you know) became jarring, and many of her statements were a bit vacuous. Example, at the end where she said males and females are more similar than different, well of course they are! With no third option how could it appear any other way!

[@Garett.1214]

I also doubt she understands what majority is and what’s optimal in a reproduction standpoint. Just because there are outliers of sexes doesn’t mean that the majority doesn’t fall between two. In those outliers, some can not reproduce or even have a desire to do so.

[@theinnerlight8016]

Third option? 😅

[@BrianLovasz]

You know?

[@magneticbears4612]

I know!

[@TracyPicabia]

Very enjoyable discussion. And free from identity bullshit too

[@jamesjohnson2394]

No doubt youre the type to spend every hour complaining about identity bullshit just like most KZbin scientists

[@wasATsea]

@@jamesjohnson2394 Nope

[@Argee55732]

Nope. 10 minutes in and only rhetoric. No point, no interest captured.

[@mohammedalduaij]

It’s kinda weird to me that she only quotes female scientists !

[@kozmicblue9537]

If you actually read the book you'll see she cites MANY male scientists.

[@theinnerlight8016]

Strong female scientists 😂

[@thepyrrhonist6152]

I hear a grudge in her voice - sorry!

[@Pazzystar]

misogyny destroyed with facts and logic

[@jeffersonianideal]

Glad Dr. Shermer refrained from titling this episode, "The Fair Sex".

[@asiastormy8728]

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[@jamesjohnson2394]

Yeah it's embarrassing you can't get past the way she talks never mind best stick to reading if it's too hard for you.

[@sircharlesnot]

Woman's bias, temperament, disposition etc has brought us Transgenderisim, BLM and Police divestment. Thanks a lot!

[@ntr10me]

lots of debatably abstract/faintly dotted lines you're attempting to red-yarn between all of these contentious issues, positing them as concrete. You're probably a decent dude (unless you're the tele-pastor Charles Stanley), but your points here are most likely poorly premised. I'm open to your expansions on them though

[@sircharlesnot]

@@ntr10me woman are innately more compassionate and since they have been allowed to vote we can see their influence in legislation. Similarly police shootings, we need to drop the Standards to allow woman so police officers are not intimidating so criminals fight back ergo police correctly shoot them. Throughout history men have run things and now that woman have an equal role in governance there are real world repercussions. Don't get me wrong, there are many positives but like everything in life there are tradeoffs

[@handyallen]

I'm sure the ladies are wondering if your available, hold your breath ladies you could get lucky 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Mike-fx4nu]

Mostly their cowardice.

[@ActionAlligator]

@@sircharlesnot You assume people are listening to your little smooth brain theories when in reality we're laughing at them. "Criminals fight back only because women police officers" like wtf lmfaoooooo did you graduate highschool? Stop larping as a social scientist and go back to your day job

[@quantum_tarot]

What a bs, I don’t even take this serious, a so called self made sceptic, running out of topics😂

[@jeffersonianideal]

38:48 Not "useless" for any woman I would know, love or marry.

[@cheri238]

Go women. Haven't heard of these pioneer women from the eighties on ideas of Darwin, others. ENJOYED THIS A LOT. THANK you Both for this chat. Mary, I will buy your book. In addition, women throughput cultures for centuries have been sadly thought of as being less than. We are the ones that bear children, again the water in the mother's woumb. I am not a religious person, although I love history, philosophy, great literature, poetry, arts. I enjoy writing and reading 📚 I am a whistler of light, Rivers, flowing, oceans, waters, animals, birds, Human nature, cosmos of galaxies, stars, sunsets lights. Thanks again to both of you. MR. SCHUMER, APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR SHOW. Reverence ❤️Great new insights. 👌

[@OPTHolisticServices]

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[@BNK2442]

So you will finaly debunke Pinker's nonsense that women don't commit sexual violence and domestic abuse?

[@BUSeixas11]

Where does he write that? Can you show me?

[@polyloly2120]

Lucy looks quite juicy