Originally Posted by makyen
I believe that my understanding of natural selection , ecological selection , and sexual selection is above average.
I disagree. Anyone who did understand "sexual selection" would NEVER have stated:
Originally Posted by makyen
They [scientists] assume that the various pre homo sapien species "millions and millions" of years ago had the reasoning capability to make a plan spanning a multi-decade period of time.
You can backtrack all you want, but it’s this aspect that is making this debate tiring.
I’m not going to go back and forth just to educate you about a theory you obviously have no interest in investigating yourself. Anyone can take any sentence that someone puts forth and respond "proof?" and, thus, keep the conversation from progressing. I don’t mind providing sources (as I always do) as long as they are questions relevant to the discussion at hand, but most of these haven’t been. Instead of placing the burden on me to provide proof for every irrelevant bit of skepticism you can come up with, why don’t you do some investigation yourself? There are different theories floating around - some that you’ll find more to your liking. That second link I provided probably does give a few conflicting theories.
BTW, this theory makes a lot of sense to me, but I’m not its creator. If someone makes me see that it’s flawed, or offers a better theory to explain how human penis sizes have grown disproportionately to other primates over millions of years then I’d probably even change my mind.
Originally Posted by makyen
I don’t believe that I have argued against the supposition that women prefer dominant men.
That example/link was there (as was stated) to help you understand "sexual selection" and how these are more like "mother nature encoding your instinctive impulses" and NOT millions of years of "plotting and scheming" by females, since THAT’S what you indicated was a flaw in this theory. :D
Originally Posted by makyen
She [Zane] has posted links that are directly contrary to the suppositions upon which the hypothesis you put forward rests.
Her second link is part of the theory I’m talking about. Everything in that quote is completely in agreement with everything I’ve said and is the BASIS for the theory of this discussion:
Originally Posted by zaneblue
"One characteristic among primates has been clearly targeted for possible selection by Fisherian female choice—male penis size. Primate males living in groups with many females and many males, groups in which promiscuity is the mating rule, have long penes (Dixon 1978). Male chimps, in fact, use their penis for display toward estrous females. Because a longer penis would give a female pleasure (note that the human male has the longest and thickest penis of any primate), female choice might have been a factor driving penis length to extremes among primates." (Small, Meredith F. (1993) Female choices: Sexual behavior of female primates. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 1993 pp. 109)
In actually, it seems to contradict YOUR assertions previous to her post:
For instance:
Originally Posted by makyen
References?The only things I have seen talk about the relative size of the testes. All of those state that the size of Homo Sapien Sapien testes are not proportionally largest vs. the penis of other primates.
This is getting tiring and boring.
Originally Posted by makyen
You have shown no relationship between "dominant" and a genetically large penis in pre homo sapien sapien species. Until that is done, the entirety of the "dominate preference" argument is completely useless in this discussion about selecting for a large penis.
THIS is the ONLY point you’ve made that is relevant (as far as I’m concerned) to this discussion. This connection stems from the idea that Alpha Males are bigger, tend to be better endowed, are aggressively confident (dominant characteristics), and "cock-sure".
Do ALL Alpha Males have big dicks? I’m not sure (probably not), but that’s the stereotype they seem to enjoy. So women’s attraction to these Alpha Males and the characteristics they are "believed" to posses is one aspect which the author to that original site (which started this discussion) linked together. However, whether Alpha Males actually have large penises or not is perhaps not as relevant as it may seem. What’s important is that people (females in particular) believe they have large penises (stemming from their "cocksure" attitude, height, and large features).
This preference for Alpha Male / large penis size qualities are not necessarily exclusive/or. Maybe women look for either dominant/over-confident qualities and large penis sizes when their evolutional sexual selection desires are in overdrive (during ovulation). They can’t always determine how big a guy’s dick is from inspection (while clothed), but perhaps she can intuitively sense he’s got a large one by his demeanour, over-confidence, and sexually aggressive qualities. Then again maybe hearing that a guy has a large penis from a girlfriend is enough to make her fantasize about straying (irregardless of whether he’s got dominant and overly-confident characteristics).
One thing’s for sure, the size of the human penis has grown disproportionately to ALL other primates over millions of years, so there had to be female sexual selection (based on penis size) going on. Again, see Zane’s provided source since you claim to be in agreement with her:
Originally Posted by zaneblue
"One characteristic among primates has been clearly targeted for possible selection by Fisherian female choice—male penis size. Primate males living in groups with many females and many males, groups in which promiscuity is the mating rule, have long penes (Dixon 1978). Male chimps, in fact, use their penis for display toward estrous females. Because a longer penis would give a female pleasure (note that the human male has the longest and thickest penis of any primate), female choice might have been a factor driving penis length to extremes among primates." (Small, Meredith F. (1993) Female choices: Sexual behavior of female primates. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 1993 pp. 109)
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Originally Posted by makyen
The comments about PE are because you have not demonstrated that genetics are the dominate factor determining penis size.
Again, I’m not going to PROVE to you that genetics are the key determining factor in penis size, height, hair color, and every other feature on your body even though it is something that’s more or less fact in the science community. If you disagree with that fact then YOU can do the research yourself to prove otherwise. BTW, PE probably is performed by a tiny fraction of a single percent of the population.
You can also try to answer this question yourself as it is the key to this WHOLE DISCUSSION: Why have human penises grown over millions of years to become the largest penises (proportionally) of all primates? Was it "female sexual selection" or something else? Zane and I clearly believe it was "female selection". You obviously think it’s something else.
Let us know what you find. That will make this discussion interesting - other theories, not just arguing for the sake of arguing. Contribute to the discussion, don’t just try to focus on every dotted ‘i’ and crossed ‘t’, and keep redefining your argument to keep the argument going.
Anyway, I’m out of here. Have fun!