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Originally posted by juju
You don't have to be taught that sex feels good, for the same reason you don't have to be taught that ice cream or chocolate tastes good.
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You are correct here, Juju. You don't have to be "taught" these things, but you still "learn" them. There are several ways of "learning" things. Learning is an adaptive change in behavior resulting from experience (Harper Collins Biology Dictionary). As I tried to explain earlier, "learned" behavior is different from "innate" behavior. The need for animals to reproduce is an innate behavior (instinctual), they don't need to learn this, they just know they need to reproduce (ie. hard-wired in their brains from birhth). This is true for humans as well, but some where along the line humans have come to associate sex with pleasure as well as reproduction. I'm not a human behaviorist, but I have a feeling that this phenomenon is a result of "learning" through experience that the sex act produces physical pleasure to "us". So, although we weren't "taught" that sex feels good we still have "learned" this through our sexual experiences.