From an evolutionary standpoint, sex isn’t useful if we take precautions to avoid impregnation. Basically, it’s like hunting for food by fishing with just a string and no hook: You might get some exercise but you’re not going to end up with an organism in your belly.

On more than one occasion I’ve heard that Humans are the only species that have sex for recreation. I have no idea if that’s absolutely true; but in any case we probably do it (pun intended) for recreation with much more diversity than any other species.

We are, for example, the only species that so eagerly seek recreation that we use our cognitive abilities to produce artificial material, develop it to feel like human skin — and then create artificial humans to have sex with (see picture). That is engenius, hilarious and a lot of other words that end with -us. Again from an evolutionary standpoint: It’s the equivalent of digging a hole, filling it with water, throwing dead fish into the water and then fishing with only a string and no hook.

But wait — there’s more: When we’ve finished years of research on artificial material that resembles natural human skin and creating an artificial human out of it — we record the intercourse and sell it as recreational material (can sex with an artificial human be called a sexual intercourse? Why not?).

For the third time: From an evolutionary standpoint, that’s the equivalent of digging a hole, filling it with water, throwing dead fish into the water, fishing with only a string and no hook just so that people can give you a fish for watching you do it.

We’re such an excitingly entertaining species.