"It is only with steady food and water, a non-superstitious understanding of basic things like time and weather, relatively constant things like housing--that's when we can devote time and energy to worrying about those things. Logically, if you are worried that your home is going to blow over or whether or not you have enough food or if you need to burn some doves for penance so that your deity will stop the cicadas or start the rain, you aren't going worry a lot about who has a charming nose or a jawline."
Their arguments are retarded. Most people throughout history weren't starving all the time. Famines happened but ever since people learned how to farm a food supply was a pretty stable thing. Sure you had bad farming seasons or you could starve because of a raging war but living in ancient times just wasn't one big starvationfest.
Not even mentioning the fact that starving animals still want to mate. Humans want to have sex while they are starving too. I read the accounts of starving Russian having sex with his boney starving girlfriend.