How Sex Is Like Your Thermostat
Here I compared sex to a thermostat. Basically, they both work as feedback loops. Of course the parallels aren't perfect (I'm looking at you, overly details obsessed engineer at a cocktail party), but it's a neat way to think about the similarities between human behaviors and feedback-based devices.
Published on Nautilus's Facts So Romantic Blog October 4, 2014
http://nautil.us/blog/how-sex-is-like-your-thermostat