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Control-f "child," "children," "pregnancy" -- nothing. We should think carefully about the tools various cultures use to deal with sex. Ultimately, sex is abou
by slibhb 5y ago
Control-f "child," "children," "pregnancy" -- nothing.
We should think carefully about the tools various cultures use to deal with sex. Ultimately, sex is about children, humans are a species that reproduces sexually. Even if there's no chance of pregnancy, the chemicals and emotions involved are premised on the possibility of pregnancy.
> The first seems to be present in more liberal, hippie-esque communities I’ve been in. In some circles, all the men seem to be satisfied, and all the women seem to have a lot of sex with a lot of people. I’m extremely curious about what are the causal factors of these types of groups. They seem to have solved the problem.
One of the basic functions of a culture or civilization is to reproduce itself through multiple generations. These communities do not last over long periods of time.
- PrimalDual 5y agoI strongly agree with your statement. Free sex and love are fine as long as there are no consequences. But sadly even with all our technology there must be consequences since we don’t know of any other way to propagate the species into the future. For the advocates of sexual libertinism I have a question: how do you ensure male parental investment? As a society we value it and often legally demand it. I certainly could not argue for the alternative. How do you assign fathers under complete sexual liberation? A common thread is that somehow you socialize childrearing but I am seriously skeptical of the scalability of that approach beyond small tribal societies.
- ipaddr 5y agoSociety raises children. The state provides qualified parents for children which allow the parents to work and live and keep spending. You could say parents belong with their children but parents outsource raising a child now to daycare, school and social groups.
- Out_of_Characte 5y ago"This [desire for sex] is how we’ve continued the human race for thousands of years" This article is about the road leading up to children and how people select each other. How we raise children today is completely different from our past and deserves its own article. Not to mention sex today doesn't always involve pregnancy for everyone.