15. Human Sexual Behavior I 

It's just the way intellectuals procrastinate

When you focus on something for too long, you can get mentally tired of the subject. Variety is the spice of life.

I do the same thing, I am procrastinating on my bio class, while listening to this, and I am doing Spanish homework.

Because anything else is more interesting than obligation

That means you have trash teachers who don't know what they are doing

sure you can look up lecture auditing

I didnt go to College but can anyone just come and sit and watch a Lecture will the professor ask If youre in this class or will some not care?

Current college student at a small-medium tier 1 research university studying engineering: in most classes professors don’t know anyone and don’t take attendance. In smaller English classes, where there are closer to say 15 students we know everyone, but in general anyone can pretty much just walk in

@@gridiron8870 Yes you can nobody would care. But also you could always just ask the professor and they wouldn't mind if you attended. You dont pay the university to go to class, you pay to get the degree. Most of this information is not gatekept

@@Brad-qw1te Thats what I was thinking the University where I live UNM you have to have a Student ID to get in otherwise you cant

These are the same people who #gaslight you and by making you learn, or lacktherof, in a way that is unhelpful, and yet you also are made to internalize it as 'laziness'? That is pretty disgusting and unhelpful, wouldn't you say?

​@@TheSapphireLeo Education is incredibly beneficial. Yes, a lot of educators do a terrible job and do more harm than good, but if you are comparing some of the atrocious systems we have set up in our K-12 public school system with a lecture from Stanford then that is a pretty stupid comparison to make and depending on your teachers there was plenty of value to be had in K-12 education as well. I can't imagine going back to school at 35 to take advanced mathematics courses in my CS degree if I never was forced to go to school. They *have* to force you to. What kid is going to willingly choose to go to school? Many things about childhood are forced upon you for your own benefit later on in life.

I totally agree with you. Now as an adult I love learning and enjoy it so much. As a teen in high school I couldn’t stay on track and maintain good grades due to general laziness

@@shaycxo_I would argue that you weren’t lazy, you were just unengaged with how the material was being taught. The standardization of the education system makes learning about fascinating stuff feel like a chore.

Its not laziness that you dont want to waste your teenage years sitting in a building having to learn pointless bullshit, its normal human reaction. Education only works when it doesnt feel like imprisonment

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i actually did that with a UC San Diego "micro masters" class i took online, i never even payed for the class lol. It gets my foot in the door because it tricks the resume sorting algorithm

hahaha haha you are the second person to make me laugh in the comments! That's funny! You could even put Stanford online.

Your grammar shows a low level that will undermine its' benefits on a resume'.

@@jasonbrown372 Oh forgive me. I forgot I’m meant to care so much about grammar when making some random RU-vid comment. Besides there’s apps for that these days 😉

Adrastheus that's deep!

Quote starts around 49:57, that one blew me away, too.

Adrastheus don’t get it

All of you who are praising “a Stanford education” by listening to videos… Listening to this guy makes me know why our kids come out of college all screwed up

RoseBtrfly Lol no

Ez work 🤫

It’s Stan ford c’mon

Easy job I taped the art classes of Bruce Defoor for anyone who missed a class. I had some of coolest jobs most people wouldn't dare to dream of. I also got paid to help him fly expert 3 dimensional kites and take inventory of all the colleges artwork. Even the stuff not on display.

Absolutely agree

😂

Yep. Glad to find some other nerds

But do we retain it? Nah just watch it again lol.

Einstein married both of his cousins and was a loser who made up some dumb math crap. So what are you saying?

@@kwimms why are u in these comments hating on a 12 year old lecture. Get a life bud.

yes your right,thats what i was thinking.all the education without having to get trapped in the student loan racket.score

Mer D kindly tell me about other universities names their lecture please

Yale,Mit, Harvard

In a better world this vid would have millions of views by now.

Mer D and the the university will famous around world

Its not worth much when you won't get the piece of paper at the end

@@spongbob205 ... I dont think you understand the true point of education...

MORE ASIANS COUGHING AND SNEEZING.

@@PeterZeeke I don’t think our society does.

I feel like some fellow ETNPs in the comments.

Bless you ❤

you are great, thank you!

good man.

thank you

Thank you

This is my first, but I’m ready for another lol

I would never have expected Stanford lectures to be this interesting.

😆😆😂😂😂

yup. it's my wake up, sleep talk down and inbetween

Ur all just so smart

Hey that is what I just said! I never went to college so I am now making up for it by experiencing it online. The only difference is that I won't be making friends along the way as a bonus :(

@@magicmoonart Cubans used to hire a person to read them books in the cigar rolling factories.

Platforms such as RU-vid give *genuine* students of psychology a wider spectrum of schooling than could ever have been imagined in ancient times! You must *always* keep in mind whose test you're studying for, though!

@Kate gee but if it sparks the drive to seek further education its a good thing

@@astroboy3002 don't worry, she is probably studying at Stanfords

Did you relapse since ?

Nerd

Happiness is an illusion. The best strategy is to avoid misery by all means necessary. It's a biological imperative. Addiction is just a side effect of a failed tactical approach .

@@stephencorsaro954 I'm praying that you come across some kind optimistic souls in your life and algorithm. Life can be good, great, and much more than juste bareable with just some hope and effort ! @bill482 thank you for this comment

most men won’t be able to rise above their sexual desires because of testosterone

I'll grab the popcorn and lecture notes.

Makes u wonder about his carpet 😳

@@michaelwright8896 The facial hair has its own brain. Extra synapses.

Nikita Kalinka well no actually it didn’t, but now you have changed that for me... file that under stuff to unread and forget lol

Stupid comment gets 360 likes

😂

What I like is that he doesn’t moralize about “ ya gotta have it” or tread water regarding identity.

You should go watch the entire course! It's definitely worth it and more fascinating than any tv tvhow ever

Well, this guy has an insane IQ. Not only that but he is an excellent orator. What an awesome professor.

He is a rare human

I agree with most of what you're sayin, except you can watch this video in 1.25x and understand it perfectly :)

Even if you did have higher education, there's always so much to learn about other disciplines, I have a degree but I love this stuff too

What if i have long middle finger??

They give you handouts for this reason

the recommended guide is that you should try to take notes after a you learn something (or during these 5 minute break time) all from your memory. This is said to enhance memory retention but I doubt I can remember everything important from this flood of information he's providing throughout these 40~50 minutes.

@@haemind i wouldn't be able to do that. My memory is bad

i'd just be writing whatever he's putting on the board, that's usually where the big concept is outlined

"flow state"?? Man!! you can ruin a wet dream!! eating

It's not just like. It is a genius comedy show/informative biology lecture. Sapolsky's made of awesome.

'Hey! Don't knock mastubation. It's sex with someone i love.'- Woody Allen

@Noelle Leger Um... depends on the gender that's masturbating and your perspective, it would be like a chicken eating it's own egg. If an egg is an egg's way of reproducing itself, then yes. it would be. if an egg is the chicken's way reproducing itself, no it wouldn't be. The egg's not a chicken in itself. Why would you eat it? That's gross! （i shouldn't judge. Sorry. To each their own. ） Oh, wait, the protein. Robert Sapolsky said something about it utilitarian and recycling the protein. i wouldn't give head to guys anyway. i just don't swing that way. i've heard a woman say it tastes like a salty milkshake. Ew! Are you drunk? your spelling is off. Please drink water. Stay hydrated. Take care.

100% its a genius comedy show cuz ticket price is $10,000

Muh dood, Sapolsky is God. Nuff Said

Thank you! Was looking through the comments for that.

This makes no sense to me, I'm so confused.

@@jonasc1221 You don't have to admit that you answered "yes" to Sexual Behaviour A. You can attribute your "yes" outcome to the coin toss. So, if you actually do engage in the behaviour, you can answer "yes" but tell others that you got a "yes" because you flipped the coin and it said "yes".

I understand why you'd implement a coin toss but how could someone who's interpreting the results be able to determine an accurate percentage after that?

@@cyclopshot well, it's statistics. With large enough numbers you get a close enough estimation with this method (coin tossing tends to have a 50% chance of either heads or tails as more people do it) In inferential statistics you never get the actual, exact result, because in order to do that you'd need the whole world (7B humans) to be in your sample. You only estimate the actual proportions, and with large enough numbers you just "guess" that it's close to the actual thing.

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🤣🤣 Stealing this!

Did it work?😂

@Rusty Howe It's depressing because humans seem to be wired to get tired of relationships and seek out shiny new things, and that dopamine hit disappearing means everything is temporal, which shatters the illusions of a forever together.

@@loadedmod That's why they teach in relationships that novelty is key

At 27:49 he discusses how bad humans are at sexual monogamy. The novelty of something new vs the comfort of something familiar. 27:49 "Marriage. Clearly, we've heard about this monogamous, pair bonding species. And in terms of the formal structure of marriage it is universal. All human cultures have some version of it. Across all human cultures over 90% of people wind up in that cultures equivalent of a permanent stable relationship. And this is the case in polygamous cultures. We already heard that business. Even though historically the majority of human cultures have been polygamous. Nonetheless, amid them the vast majority of individuals have been in monogamous relationships. Amid that nonetheless, what is also clear amid that highly, highly prevalent pattern of monogamous relationships there's a lot less monogamy going around than you would think. And this was first sorted out with people like Alfred Kinsey first working out that questionniare approach to people's sexual behavior, what became clear was there's a lot less faith within pair bonding within the human species, with humans in this country and this is shown in all sorts of other societies than one would originally assume. There is "social monogamy" but not anywhere near a high of rates of "sexual monogamy". 29:10 "And what the paternity studies have shown is in most western European countries the rate at which children have been fathered by an individual other than the person claiming marriageable credit for doing so ranges between 10% and 40% of children."

@@efortune357 👏 how did you write that out so accurately?

@@alumpyhorse I like taking notes lol

no your just immature lol

it’s a matter of talking with confidence and speed. you can’t laugh if he’s talking about something else already

Focus!

these are topics that people should know , is why we can tune in effortlessly. Also the professor is very good at what he does.

Did you even watch the video??? There was laughter the whole time...

hahahaha ha ha! laughed so hard!! Thank you!

My parents were divorced before my birth.

Nucleus Sir Cummins has entered the chat

Thats the magic that happens when you make good use of the internet!

That may be cause you watch these to escape reality, rather than enhance your understanding of it. I say it may be that, I'm not sure. Am I at least kinda right? Because sometimes I listen to these and actually take notes, either on a piece of paler or in a word doc..and then I go over the main points the next day. And now I actually remember and know some stuff from his other lectures..BUT when I jist play a lecture, like the one on the limbic system, I never really learn anything, let alone find a way to apply it...I remember skmething ventral this, ventral that, how the pfc ks also part of the limbic system, some guy Paul Mckleen or smth came up woth the triume brain and not Arthur Janov, which was what I had thought...bjt have no idea what to do with this fragmented knowledge now...relatable at all?

@@dejanmarkovic3040 Well you apply it on yourself to understand your own mind and body, and honestly I remember everything that he spoke on the Limbic system as well as other topics, and I did make proper notes and every now and then I try to notice my behavior and I really can see how my sleep cycle or digestion, aggressive behavior during my periods all of it happens. I know myself better than before and even understand other people and animals.

@@dejanmarkovic3040 Also I read his book on Behavior so it also helped alot.

Watch it again, acknowledge realities' fluidity.

As opposed to what?

@@skatefulfill huh lmao

@@skatefulfill obviously u lack attention of some sorts.

He’s so fricking good at articulating things. His pace is amazing and he’s hilarious too!

@@skatefulfill uum what?

@@skatefulfill Dr Sapolsky has never taken illicit drugs nor taken a sip of alcohol.....

is that why it is only worth the grade they got in the class?

he's an atheist

LOL

Retired psych professor and administrator here. There are not any other Sapolskys...he is one of a kind. Professors are chosen not at all for their lecture skills...they are chosen at the beg. of careers for their publications in journal articles...quality of journals that publish their early articles. Then later as they move up from lecturer, assistant prof, assoc prof and full professor they are chosen for both the quality of publications by the prestige in their field of the journals in which they publish THEN the number of publications THEN of equal importance at some institutions the dollar amount of grants they bring in. The universities NEED the funds from these grants to subsidize the physical plant etc...overhead is charged on each grant substantial sums. Grants bring in a huge amount of money and the best universitites get the most funding from that source...professors bringing in those higher funded grants receive rewards...better facilities and labs, nicer offices, higher travel budgets, and eventually are chosen for funded chairs...which means their salary is supplemented by the university to the tune of $50 to 200,000 USD and up annually. Whether they are engaging lecturers just does not come into it to be totally truthful about the matter. At community colleges lecture skills ARE part of the equation since those institution never get large grants and their faculty rarely publish anything so the emphasis is on teaching skills BUT skills that make complex subjects more INTELLIGIBLE to less gifted students than Stanford students. Subjects like chemistry, microbiology, ie the hard sciences....especially as foundational courses. Did you hear him refer to Federal grant money in this lecture...yes that and industry grants are KEY to career advancement.

what did you study?

Lucky for us, we can now get to hear these high quality lectures for free on RU-vid, regardless of our high school GPA's and SAT scores.

They always said if you’ve made it in, you’ve already done the work. Everybody has a good GPA at Stanford, even after acceptance.

Lemme get this straight: you have 3 degrees because you were so smart, but all 3 are from shitty schools because you were too busy with your genitals to get a real education, which means these 2 factoids (smart vag owner / lame education) result in a neutral outcome so why are you telling us all this in the first place?-

+realcygnus Robert Sapolsky is the best teacher, he really knows his shit.

+realcygnus to me it's amazing how people could not be interested in how they work :) and how sex life works

+realcygnus hes one of my favourite people ever

Sapolsky is my HERO!

Professor

Yes

I just found it, my curiosity strikes again 😂

Not really out of nowhere for me but yeah It was a great lecture.

what you mean??@@garcia2036

Yeah, I just stumbled on this guy out of nowhere. Now, I want his latest book.

Grim view indeed.

I didn't get it , can you please explain it to me.. Thank u in advance..

@@Surya-vr1uv when you are about to start a courtship to your crush you inevitably think how great it's going to be. And if succeed, you may feel that the reality doesn't match up with your imagination

@@UltraGaivalas thank u dud..

it means what one really wants is the anticipation of a relationship and all the rewards of feel-good when anticipating it, but to get that one ends up having to pay the price of committing a relationship afterward.

Did you pass them

@@apparition333skaters3 guess not.

Lockdowns definitely fucked people up.

Bummer

u must live in Piedmont or something. You didnt go on walks in my neighborhood there unless u trying to get robbed :P

I really wish you the best, I hope you’re clean now .. god bless

@hailey grey YES!! This is an absolute fact that I myself have personally experienced & physically felt during my own journey through heroin addiction, I still can find myself feeling a certain wave even simply thinking about heroin from my time during that period of my life. It's a crazy thing how our brains & all that's connected within them work & our behaviors that associate with such.

So you can see how that reward system can lead people to lie under oath and creates a "political addiction", stated as "arguing for arguments' sake", aka "Devils' Advocate."

Personally, ALSO feel the deepest gratitude that we can access his RARE brilliance. We live in the right time.

My thoughts exactly thank you for writing it out for me. It’s recently come to my attention that not all women do this, and are quite happy to be with a man who doesn’t make a woman climax. i just found out, 8/10 of my female friends do not climax during sex and several of them have never had an orgasm. I could not be in love with a man who does not engage in mutually enjoyable orgasm which is the definition of making love vs “having sex”. I’m gobsmacked as to what the goal orientated pay off is to partake in a relationship ??? If not to do experience mutual ecstasy and build a family around this.

It was a very bizarre discussion to me overall in the lecture-is it not common sense that if the sex is enjoyable for both participants‚ it is more likely to be long-lasting and reoccurring and thus result in more reproduction?

Makes sense. I tend to also have patience when in bed with someone i really like. And would last longer too, compared to just having sex after a night out lol

You're single right?

@@_Highvalue_ good orgasms are only for single women? I pity you for not knowing how to please a woman. My husband makes me orgasm every day when we are together.

Agreed

Another proof Sapolsky is God.

Well considering that you remarked on it. Your comment was a self fulfilling prophecy.

Absolute unit of a beard

It’s like if Nietzche’s mustache was a beard

" SEX OBJECT " SEXUAL MIS - CONDUCT BEHAVIOR TAJ MA' HAL HER SACRED SACRIFICE MATERNAL FAME BE - HAVE " TO HAVE AND TO HOLD " VOW SEXTILE OBJECT AN INSTRUMENT for NAVIGATION has SIX PARTS SIX AN ORGY SEX by definition even " GANG RAPE " BIRTHING SEXTUPLES = 6 WORD STUDY COMPREHENSION INTERCOURSE WHY PLEASURE REPRODUCTION HEALTH THERAPY ALWAYS MUTUAL RESPECT ARMS for HUGS SUMMARY by Maggie N.I.S.A.I. by N.I.N.E. ; . . .3Sq " UN - LETTERED " PEACEMA' NY !

Did you get schizophrenia from certain thing in your life or were you born that way ?

@@864emanuel9 schizophrenia is almost always genetic. other relatives of mine have it. i was diagnosed later than normal in life, around 26.

PinkOctopus do you use drugs ? I was smoking weed heavy and I was starting to experience some Phycosis symptoms

Music feels good A connection

He is teaching in Iran, apparently they also loooove his knowledge ...

So many people in the same room breathing the same air. The before time was bizarre.

😂😂😂

It all started here.

That's what you're worried about? Coughing on a video.

@@tao8150 actually, after almost a year of a global pandemic its bizarre that hearing someone cough doesn't lights some red light in your head

Check out alan watts, eckhart tolle and mark Mansons books then. Cuz yeahhh... jordan peterson and ben shapiro are not it.

2 years?? What a waste.

Oh God why, none of those people are worth listening to.

I hope too ... how are you

We as learners of his work hopefully need to spread and raise awareness of this science especially his work relating to his landmark book called behave 👌 pick a friend and family member you know will enjoy learning and and then a link or start a conversation at the dinner table armed with this new understanding of human behaviour! 👌

Greetings from San Diego how are you doing ..

@@jamespaternoster7354 are you by any chance Vegan freak? They're also fancy of preaching eternal life, driven by toxic saviour complex 👀

@@OmmerSyssel this is not relevant

Yes! His lectures were on another level

Yes exactly!! I would love to see some of the recent studies on some of these topics. 🥰

probably hooking monkeys brains up to computers while the environment collapses

@Alan J You have no idea what you're talking about.

@@yeterartkk This seems disingenuous, conflating gender (an identity) with sex. No one is saying what you’re saying.

Dr. Jordan B Peterson.

TWiV, here on youtube. Virologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University has weekly sessions mostly about covid, 'This Week in Virology'. Also he has a physician in weekly, Daniel Griffin. I know this is different, a lot of it goes over my head (I have a medical degree) but there you are at the forefront of knowledge. These top-shelf scientists are in their own ways adorable - it is fun watching Amy Rosenfeld wipe the floor with any man brave enough to not agree with her.

@@theawsomedude467 No wouldn't advice him to learn about anything except 'the Jordan Peterson view of XYZ'. He's not really there to teach as much as to spread his own world view and is highly selective in the information concerning a certain topic he gives.

@@davidd854 That's just factually inaccurate.

@@theawsomedude467 Care to give any arguments?