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>creepy transactional views of intimacy The rest of your points are entirely valid, but this is absolutely not. Every living thing with a brain is in some sens
by IQunder130 5y ago
>creepy transactional views of intimacy
The rest of your points are entirely valid, but this is absolutely not. Every living thing with a brain is in some sense acting as a utility maximizer. If you're not getting something you want out of a relationship, you won't partake it in it. Denying this is delusional.
- ben_w 5y ago> Denying this is delusional But the delusion is a useful one which boosts reproductive success, presumably because humans take a long time to become independent, so its absence is creepy. (Does this count as an example of “facile evo-psych explanations of sexual attraction”?)
- IQunder130 5y agoJust because your armchair evopsych swings the other way doesn't make it any more valid.
- ben_w 5y ago‘Course not. Regardless, I observe[0] that people find transactional attitudes towards intimacy to be creepy — denouncing people for feeling thusly does not make them like it. [0] I am aware this is mere anecdotes
- username90 5y agoSimilarly telling men that they are creepy for liking young slim women wont make them like old fat women more. People don't discuss these things to get laid, they do it because discussing things is fun.