what can we do without?

[dannyday5821]

just wondering, what could we remove from the human body, that we dont need in order to survive in the modern world?

things like hair, nails, toes. those are the only three i can really think of...we dont really "need" them, as we can live without them.

anyone else got any ideas?

we dont "need" a nose....do we?

[Goodsoulette]

Waking without toes.....????

Appendix, gall bladder, a kidney, and as this is the modern world with drugs we can do without our spleen and pancreas

[Whickerman]

Yes, you need a nose if you want a sense of taste. (A lot of our taste of food actually come from smell)

We don't need appendix, spleen, male nipples, the 2nd kidney, 2nd testicle, incisors, any toe except the big one, and excess fat.

[Whickerman]

oooh - body hair

[dannyday5821]

I reckon we could walk without toes! if not, would just a big toe be enough? lol :P well, we dont "need" to taste food in order to survive, even in the modern world, so am i still right? we could live without a nose. as weird as it would look!

[Doc Spock]

Judging from majority of posts on here most people seem to be managing without a brain.

[jno]

not needing a second kidney is like not needing a spare tyre in your car. You don't - until something gets a puncture. Likewise you don't need two ears or eyes, but a body that comes with spare parts included is a useful thing.

[dannyday5821]

fair point actually! i guess we do need spares! lol :P ive only got one eye myself how did i not think of that!? haha!

[Shadow Man]

Without being base, women do not really need a clitoris or the physiological (and psychological) need to orgasm. One can procreat without them panting like a demented monkey everytime they are fumbled with.

[dannyday5821]

...so...whats the point of it, if its not needs to "reproduce" as it were - nature must have created it at some point, for some reason...no? or maybe not! but still, makes you wonder huh?

[China Doll]

Bearing in mind Shadow Mans point, I would suggest men don't need two holes to speak out of as it is apparent one will do.

Appendix and body hair are all I can think of at this moment. I guess foreskin as well.

[Shadow Man]

I believe the clitoris is given very early on to the fetus. For boys it grows in to a dinky and stays the same for birds. Likewise balls and ovaries are the same at this very early stage.

Evolutionists have argued that essentially animals, moreover mammals are rapists (Also pysychology such as "Civilisations and its Discontent"). Only humans have evolved that sex is for pleasure and not a right of the male. Orgasms, therefore, make women want to mate. Otherwise they will fight off all potential maters. Why go through the pain, if there is no pro-creation?

[China Doll]

That's not entirely true Shadow Man

Chimps use sex as a way of saying good morning. It's a social thing.

Cats are absolute tarts. The female will parade herself in front of all the Toms in what is essentially an animal form of a lap dance. It only hurts when the male pulls out.

The cockroach has many different penis's of many different shapes and sizes.

And since we can't ask animals if it was good for them, I'd suggest that it seems that for some animals it is.

As to the nature of procreation. Yes, you're right. Sex does not have to be fun in order for that to happen. I'm just rather glad it is.

[Shadow Man]

I did not say it was correct, it is an argument out forward by evolutionists, anthropologists and pychologists NOT ME!!!!

[Shadow Man]

Also, although there is some evidence that a few other animals have sex for pleasure, it has further been argued that there is no concept of any form of contraception.

Therefore, the concept contradicts itself (unless you count masturbation, within some monkey communites, as contraception)

[China Doll]

Don't get your knickers in a twist m'dear, you should know my pixels a bit better than that by now. I never intentially set out to annoy. (THough I am rather good at it).

Not sure how contraception comes in to it exactly. I don't think sex for pleasure and making babies are mutually exclusive. I guess it just gives them even more of a reason eh?

[Shadow Man]

Sorry CD I just don't understand your last.

If you can't see that contraception is basically sex without babies, ergo pleasure, I fail to see any point at all.

[whippetycros]

brains
most do very well without them

[cazzz1975]

you can see how shadow is a hit with the ladies china...:)

[kp nonuts]

fair point there doc what about nonuts though as my dog has none

[Whickerman]

jno - you're spot on there regarding the kidney, but nature gave us just one heart each and we manage (just about!)

As for eyes - we need one to see, but two to have depth perception (close one and see.)

And we definitely need two ears, otherwise headphones wouldn't fit.