An evolutionary psychologist might say that 'humanist' beliefs & aesthetic taste were 
elements of status-seeking behavior--and therefore a strategy for attracting mates & 
carrying on into the next generation.  The cultivated self, individualism, taste, 
judgment: the way we get near to God is also the way we get laid.--New Yorker

"Buss said academic studies suggest that one out of every eight children today--13%--'have
genetic fathers who are different from the men who believe they are their fathers.'" [U. of
Michigan psychologist D. Buss, author of "The Evolution of Desire"] 

'Tis better to be lowely born & range with humble livers in content, than
to be pirked up in a glistening grief & wear a golden sorrow.--Shakespeare

A common theme in Ms. Zhang's book & and its numereous imitators is how the traditional & modern
worlds collide over sex. ..Ms. Zhang recounts the tale of a young secretary who lost her virginity
after getting drunk with her boss & ...  She now wants to marry but her fiance expects a virgin, driving
 the distraught young woman to consider buying a hymen-repair kit--a product of dubious value widely sold 
in China. --Wall Street Journal

it is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence; rather 
it is his social existence that determines his consciousness--Marx

You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything
that you think that you know, everything that you have been taught.--Manson

Are there still virgins?  One is tempted to answer no.  There are only girls 
who have not yet crossed the line, because they want to preserve their market 
value...call them virgins if you wish, these travelers in transit.--F. Giroux 

In pagan Samoa, virginity among girls had been valued & required for a honorable marriage.-Freeman

The act of knowing overcomes this duality by fusing the 2 elements of reality, the 
precept & the concept gained by thinking, into the complete thing.--Steiner

people are worried about anything that threatens to predict their behaviour, because if 
you can predict someone's behaviour you can control it.  There are very good adaptive reasons 
why you don't want other people to predict your behaviour. If you're a football player 
and you know exactly what the opposing team is going to do, you'd be able to destroy them. 
One of the key insights of evolutionary psychology is that humans have inherent conflicts of 
interest with other individuals, with members of their own family, with members of the opposite 
sex, and members of their own sex. If someone you're in conflict with can better predict your 
behaviour you'll encounter what is called strategic interference. You're at a disadvantage. 
               "what is taught in main stream social science to 
                millions of people across the United States is outrageous"
We have evolved mechanisms to prevent others from totally predicting our behaviour.  The most 
obvious example is facial expressions, remaining stoic, trying to conceal your emotions.  So 
there's a resistance to any theories that offer truly penetrating insights into human nature.
Whether that resistance can be overcome or not I don't know. People don't like it, 
they're worried about it. --David Buss

He who beieves is happy; he who doubts is wise.--Hungarian Proverb

Fu Tse-yan, an embarrassed 35-year-old, said she and her husband hastily got married after having 
sex. For her, it meant respectability. For him, it meant taking responsibility. 
Feminist Shih Chi-ching told Fu on the program that there are women who marry men who rape 
them because they fear no one else will want them. 
``Virginity is not a matter of morality, as it would seem,'' Shih said. ``To women, it's 
merchandise that could gain them husbands, and for men it's a means to control women.''

Paranoia is the belief in a hidden order behind the visible.--anon.

                                               3.
 There are such scientists who claim that to understand the signs of any language is to know the thoughts hidden behind those
 signs. According to adherents of this view, "thinking..." as Professor Pelc writes in his Prolegomena to Semiotics ."..goes in
 parallel to speaking, and it consists in associating some presentations with other ones in human consciousness"--language