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The ancients had orgies as a part of religious mystery cults. Those weren’t widespread to the level that Tinder is today. The birth control pill also enabled m
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
The ancients had orgies as a part of religious mystery cults. Those weren’t widespread to the level that Tinder is today.
The birth control pill also enabled many of these attitudes, so it almost by definition wasn’t a return to their “true nature.”
But yes of course people like having sex. What’s new is that this pleasure-focused view of it has become the dominant one, to the exclusion of all others.
- whaaswijk 6y agoI was pushing back to your assertion that viewing sex as entertainment is primarily a modern and western viewpoint. Certainly the west’s view of sex has changed in the past 100 years. However I would not be surprised if the current view is actually more in line with historical attitudes toward sex, not less.