I added the "Benefits of Sex" as a topic to the BIOL 1404 syllabus because I think it is an interesting of example of how natural selection works and allows us to discuss an importat issue, the evolution of antibiotic microbes. I didn't know that it was going to become a political issue.
Here is a link to an article from today's Chronicle of Higher Education entitlted "The Usefulness of Sex"
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-usefulness-of-sex/28670?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Here's the first bit of the article-
Here’s what Rick Santorum said about contraception in an interview with a Christian news outlet:
It’s not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act …
Santorum is part of a small slice of the American population who are against contraception. Even most Catholics (85 percent, according to Pew) don’t believe it’s morally wrong. Because it’s a view held by a relatively tiny minority no one usually bothers to make an argument for non-procreative sex. But because Santorum is a serious presidential contender, at least at this exact moment, maybe it’s worthwhile
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