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		marquis on Jan 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Are Going to Die >I think the whole youth and beauty thing falls out of this. Yes, you're right but that is more of a side-effect of why we value youth and beauty: our primary drive for sex is to reproduce, and there is a nice bell-curve on the age of a person as to when that is optimal, made clearly obvious by their outward appearance of youth and beauty. Plenty of older people have sex, and I've heard anecdotally that retirement homes are a good place for finding a partner.

fusiongyro on Jan 22, 2013 [–]

> our primary drive for sex is to reproduce

Clearly you and I are not watching the same pornography.

> Plenty of older people have sex

Sure. I'm just positing that the retirement home phenomenon is exacerbated by our cultural fear of finding out about this.

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