Christopher Ryan Quote
Does all this frivolous sex make our species sound animalistic? It shouldn’t. The animal world is full of species that have sex only during widely spaced intervals when the female is ovulating. Only two species can do it week in and week out for nonreproductive reasons: one human, the other very humanlike. Sex for pleasure with various partners is therefore more human than animal. Strictly reproductive, once-in-a-blue-moon sex is more animal than human. In other words, an excessively horny monkey is acting human, while a man or woman uninterested in sex more than once or twice a year would be, strictly speaking, acting like an animal.
Christopher Ryan
Does all this frivolous sex make our species sound animalistic? It shouldn’t. The animal world is full of species that have sex only during widely spaced intervals when the female is ovulating. Only two species can do it week in and week out for nonreproductive reasons: one human, the other very humanlike. Sex for pleasure with various partners is therefore more human than animal. Strictly reproductive, once-in-a-blue-moon sex is more animal than human. In other words, an excessively horny monkey is acting human, while a man or woman uninterested in sex more than once or twice a year would be, strictly speaking, acting like an animal.
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About Christopher Ryan
Christopher Ryan (né Papazoglou; born 25 January 1950) is a British actor best known for his roles as Mike The Cool Person in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in the BBC comedy series Bottom, Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and as Edina Monsoon's ex-husband Marshall Turtle in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. He has also appeared as the McKendrick twins in One Foot in the Grave, and played Sontaran General Staal in Doctor Who in 2008.