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CodeyWhizzBang • today at 11:32 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

What on earth are you talking about?

The bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs are things you need to stay alive. Without these things you die:

- Food

- Water

- Shelter

- Sleep and rest

- Air and comfortable temperature

As much as men (and not exclusively men) like sex, they don't literally die without it.


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oddIdentities • today at 11:38 AM

I'm talking about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, as published in his landmark paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" that appeared in Psychological Review in 1943.

You would do well to read it, bearing this whole saga in mind.

But if that is too much for you, Wikipedia has a tl;dr:

"Maslow's hierarchy places sex in the physiological needs category, alongside food and breathing." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#...)

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