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Originally posted by Undertoad
In fact I believe intercourse is downright painful for female cats. Although I couldn't find the Straight Dope column where I read that.
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You're right UT. For many species sex is painful. Many females get injured quite badly during the sex act. The males often bite and scratch them resulting in painful wounds which in the wild also can result in death for the females. I can't think of any examples right off the top of my head, but I do know this is true. And for the male perspective, take a look at Black Widows. In this case, the male gets the raw end of the stick. He becomes the females after sex hors d'oeurve. This actually reminds me of salmon too. Juju's "pleasure reward" theory, although I know it is invalid, doesn't explain why many species die after producing off-spring. If in fact they "thought" sex was an intensely pleasurable act, they couldn't pass this info. onto their offspring because they are dead. Therefore, the need to reproduce is once again solely based on instinct and not on pleasure which is a "learned" emotional response to sex based on what humans "think" is pleasurable.