Where's my spare sexual organ?
I don't understand why I have only one sexual organ. What if it stopped working? Then I wouldn't be able to breed, it's such a crucial organ. So why has evolution not given a man two penises as this would increase survival and procreation chances, thanks.
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Two eyes allow for depth perception. Two ears allow us to determine the direction of a sound. Two penises? I think you've watched Office Space too many times.
Q: "If you had control of human evolution, what would you do?"
Because women have only one vagina each. And your god abhors kinky sex.
Besides, you already got two balls. What more do you want?
Tough shit if you still don't get any.
"why not two sexual organs?"
Because if you're doing something that can actually damage your penis, you're too stupid to reproduce anyway.
Besides, how would you whack off? One at a time?
You have two testes, don't you, numbnuts?
And your mother, she has (or had) two ovaries, now didn't she?
You're a dumbass.
Right, so instead of making the dick/pussy so that it never "broke", you propose making a second one.
Right, as if having a bloody sausage and two meatballs down there doesn't make the crotch crowded enough - we're supposed to have a second one? Scarlets can't be a guy.
There have been cases of men being born with two functional penises, yes.
Now tell me the purpose of the third nipple...
"What if it stopped working? Then I wouldn't be able to breed, it's such a crucial organ."
That'd be proof there is a God.
Is Scarlets79 female?
If so, why would she want a penis as well as a vagina? The plumbing problems alone would drive anyone crazy.
And, yes, I let my inner male piggerism poke through and assumed that he or she was male.
"We have two eyes, if one goes at least you have the other one. Women have two breasts, we have two ears, two legs, two arms... why not two sexual organs?"
At first I actually thought this was a good point, but then I read the comments and you guys made perfect sense that it isn't. Thanks, guys! :)
A lot of it is for balance, and the two eyes are for depth perception. And a lot of it is just because. You've pointed out what you percieve to be a flaw in our design, therefore your argument suggests that God is flawed, not evolution.
And also... you're a dick.
I wonder if she took a sex-ed course. She would know that the balls, that is, the testicles and the ovaries are double for a reason, precisely THAT REASON.
I have read enough of Scarlets's inanities to agree that *it* couldn't be a guy (no offense to all you logical ladies out there, but it is just the way he/she states arguments)
And anyway, Scarlets DOES have 2 sex organs: head meet ass; ass meet head.
Scarlets seems to be putting this off onto evolution, but as Freboy mentions; the IDer, if that's the way one wishes to believe it, didn't give us two peni, either.
So there.
"I don't understand why I have only one sexual organ. What if it stopped working? Then I wouldn't be able to breed, it's such a crucial organ. So why has evolution not given a man two penises as this would increase survival and procreation chances, thanks. "
Bilateral symmetry biatch!
Freboy wrote: "That's the thing. Evolution improves, it doesn't optimize. That's what a designer would do."
Well, to build on the above quote a bit, it locally optimizes but it doesn't 'look ahead', which is the answer to S79's question.
Evolution doesn't 'give' us anything. It can't say "That'd be a good idea!", or "I'll maybe add another of these, just in case!". It responds, it doesn't plan. There is no reproductive advantage to having two penises unless one is damaged, which is (happily) a rare event. Having a reproductive advantage over the 1 in 10000 males that has that one really bad day is not going to help if you have an increased biological cost relative to the other 9999.
Developmentally, we are predisposed to have one, and there is no immediate advantage to two to drive selection. But had our ancestors sex organs developed along slightly different lines, we just might have ended up with two bilaterally symmetrical sex organs (with one testicle each), as snakes have.
Mind you, then how would we hold the magazine?
Take the matter up with God since we are 'intelligently' designed. Whilst your there, ask him why our food and the air we breath have to both go down the same tube allowing for easily arisable situations ending in us choking? Why a mans uretha goes through the prostate gland, or better still why God designed men so that the prostate swells with age? Why do we not regenerate limbs? Why do we age? etc etc
I could design a better human being than God, which is a damn good argument for us arising from evolution.
"Women have two breasts, we have two ears, two legs, two arms... why not two sexual organs?"
Two ears for directional hearing, two eyes for depth perception, two legs for increased mobility, two arms for higher dexterity. What about breasts? Are there two breasts so that babies can drink from the other one if one emptied, while the empty one refills?
When will these morons realize that these "Why hasn't evolution given me blah blah blah" posts are actually disproving intelligent design , and not evolution?
At any rate, you don't have two penises because such a mutation never occurred during your ancestry, or if it did occur, it happened in a way that impacted the creatures ability to mate negatively.
Natural selection may not be random, but the mutations it herds sure are . Is it really that difficult to understand that evolution isn't an intelligent force? You may as well be asking why thunderclouds don't stop dropping rain on us as soon as it starts to flood...
We have two eyes because two are required for depth perception. Two ears serve a similar function to determine distance and direction of a sound. Women have two breasts because they sometimes have two children at once and at other times must help with children whose mother died in addition to their own. We have two legs because... otherwise we'd be hopping.
There is no reproductive advantage to having two penises unless one is damaged, which is (happily) a rare event. Having a reproductive advantage over the 1 in 10000 males that has that one really bad day is not going to help if you have an increased biological cost relative to the other 9999.
I was going to bring this up, but yeah. The cost of doubling up far outweighs the risk of losing your meat and two veg.
Also, having two at all would seem to be a detriment to reproductive ability. Assuming they swell in tandem, the extra's only going to hinder the production of offspring.
"I don't understand why I have only one sexual organ. What if it stopped working? Then I wouldn't be able to breed, it's such a crucial organ."
That would be natural selection at work you moron.
"So why has evolution not given a man two penises as this would increase survival and procreation chances, thanks."
Because evolution favors the highly evolved marsupial which does, indeed, have two penises. Well, technically it's two pronged but still, that makes it obvious that it's more highly evolved than you.
"We have two eyes, if one goes at least you have the other one. Women have two breasts, we have two ears, two legs, two arms... why not two sexual organs?"
It's called bilateral symmetry. Your sexual organs and your nose happen to be on the mid-line so you only get one. If you have any complaints, take them up with your deity.
Even if Scarlets79 were to have one of each, it couldn't fertilize itself in normal sexual reproduction, but would have to find a partner. Many plants have a stamen and pistil, but can only be pollinated from another member of the same species. Scatlet, could, and should go fuck herself.
have you lost your mind? you want another set of reproduction equipment? What if nothing goes wrong? All I can think about is if they worked independently you'd have a week of PMS then menstruation followed by 1 week PMS then menstruation. Maybe they would overlap. What the hell kind of life would that be? If they worked together I couldn't imagine the cramps, bloating, bleeding. Tampons would be sold by the crate but we'd get 2 free pints of blood with each purchase. When you get older the hot flashes would incinerate you. I'm afraid to think about carrying twins in each.
anonymous_troy said "Besides, how would you whack off? One at a time?"
Not sure about you, but I DO have two hands! LOL
Actually, there was once a man with two penises. They both worked as well. He was very proud of them.
Bad Influence - yes, they do.
Oh wow.
For all these idiots who say "why didn't evolution make us with THIS?" it doesn't occur to them that you could ask the same question with "If 'God' is so perfect, why didn't he 'create' us with THIS?"
I swear, people talk about the dark ages as if it was a long time ago, but we have NOT fully come out of the dark ages yet, and people like this are proof of that.
Rotfl @ Airbag's comment.
Scarlets79 is a guy? What kind of guy takes the name of Scarlet?
Why would we need two sexual organs? If your stops working, you don't get to procreate and your line dies out. You keep thinking that Evolution is some sort of entity that actually thinks and has goals for our world. Do you also think that gravity chooses to knock your toast butter side down so it can feed?
It's curious, when my uncle suffered testicle cancer at 22 and was taken one of the balls off for that, he was told that he didn't have to worry for his fertility, precisely because there were two testicles for that reason. That the healthy one would still be working. And, up to know, he's got four kids. The penis, as far as I'm concerned, only helped to put the seed, produced in the testicles, in the right place, so to say.
You have two testicles, where spermatozoids are actually produced, and women have two ovaries for the eggs. Come on, stop masturbating bad boy.
Actually "bilateral symmetry" isnt an answer. At least one poster invoking this also mentioned that some species *do* have two penises (or prongs). Also, why does an organism have to be symmetrical anyway? We arent symmetrical internally. Twin births explains two nipples, but not two breasts - in fact boobs dont have to be big to make adequate milk (look at other primate species, and the many small-breasted women who can usually breastfeed alright) and if they did, why waste space in the middle? Why not have a band right across?
Desmond Morris has suggested that the large human female breasts resulted from the change from rear-entry to forward intercourse - boobs remind males of butts. This is unlikely since even young boobs, especially large ones, are a lot more droopy than buttocks when outside of a bra. Evo's a lot more effective at mimicry than that if it needs to be - and anyway, you dont put your dick between them. (Well not when fertilizing the female). More likely the slight correlation between boob size and milk production has evolved males to respond more to large breasts which has itself then tended to select females to produce larger ones.
"Women have two breasts, we have two ears, two legs, two arms... why not two sexual organs?"
Women also have two holes down there. Only in your case, she should have flushed you away and kept her bowel movement. At least the latter would've had more intelligence.
Like some people already said, you have two testicles, that's nature's backup plan.
Well, technically, he does have two. The penis, and the testicles.
If he doesn't agree on the latter, apparently he's never had a woman work her holy magic on them.
One penis has not proven to be a detriment to our surival, and has in fact proven to be more than successful. Ergo, two cocks is unnecessary. Now tell me...why did God put all our hopes and dreams of survival as a species in a long piece of flesh in a very vulnerable spot...?
Hmm... nice thought... right hand round one, going up, while left hand round the other, going down. Hours of practice at synchronised orgasms...
But somehow I suspect if you are a fundy, all that will be lost on you and the extra penis would end up redundant.
You only get one. if you fail, or break it somehow, then you get cut from the evolutionary team. evolution doesnt want you anymore. thats how it works. to equate evolution to a god, which is apparently the only way fundies can understand it.
Two eyes for decent depth perception, so we're not constantly running into things because we misjudged the distance.
Two ears to triangulate sound sources.
Two arms to hold and manipulate objects, two legs because walking and running requires that at the minimum.
One penis, because unlike all the other things you listed, having more than one confers no real survival-critical advantage for humans, and there's little to no selective pressure that would push us toward developing more than one. Ergo, while very occasionally a human is born with twin penises, the trait is unlikely to spread far. Our system worked well enough for our ancestors, and so really hasn't changed very much. Evolution is much more about more about "getting by" than it is "survival of the fittest," really.
There are, however, animals that found more than one penis or vagina to be useful in their own environment. We're simply not one of them, and neither were our immediate ancestors.
“one sexual organ. What if it stopped working?”
If your sexual organ has failed, why in the name of Vishnu would evolution try to protect your genes?
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