Bret Weinstein

On the one hand, it is a barometer.

It tells you what the status of your relationship is.

And it's also a tool for enhancing, fixing, modifying your relationship.

And evolution built it to be that.

Sex is something very unique in humans because in humans, unlike almost every other creature, we have sex when not fertile.

Why is sex pleasurable when not fertile?

Because selection has given it to us for a reason.

It's given it to us for a purpose.

Why does sex continue after menopause?

Seems pointless, but it's not pointless.

It has everything to do with maintaining that relationship.

Why would selection care if you maintain your sexual relationship after you've stopped producing offspring?

Because the way human beings work, your job isn't done at the point that you've stopped producing offspring, right?

You have kids who need guidance and help in the world.

You're going to have grandkids, right?

Your union is still important.

And so the idea that we've disrupted this with a consumer good that pushes men into the worst of their modes—

and is now exposing women to that and that women are now being induced to think that that's sophisticated to behave in this way that men at their worst are behaving.

And so women are now behaving this way.

It's like, well, you couldn't ask for a better recipe for disrupting functional relationships and those functional relationships