[donh]

Since this means most human sex does not bear fruit, recreational sex should have been eliminated from the gene pool long ago, according to your spartan prescription for genetic survival, right?

Depends on the extent to which it is practiced. Consider the population statistics for Russia and Western Europe for example.

You have some statistics on the relative frequency of recreational vs. procreative sex in Russia and Western Europe? How was it gathered?

[grey_whiskers]

Check out some of the abortion threads/flamewars for the claims as to the number of abortions per capita among Russia women--I have heard sources claiming as many as eight abortions.

If the sex was for procreation, instead of entertainment, they wouldn't be having so many abortions, eh?

As for the European women, you could ask Freeper GermanBusiness ;-)

I have had a number of European women co-workers who have expressly described to me their deliberate decision to refrain from having children.

And I have talked to exchange students who talked about the casual in flagrante behaviour of many college kids over there. Couple that with any number of FReeper threads about the death of the European social welfare model, and the consequent necessity to import young laborers from the Muslim world, and...voila!

Anecdotal, but not made up.

Cheers!