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Yes, I absolutely agree. For much of our evolutionary history, young men were optimized to fuck and to fight. I’m not sure how we square this with the needs of
by cgh 4y ago
Yes, I absolutely agree. For much of our evolutionary history, young men were optimized to fuck and to fight. I’m not sure how we square this with the needs of modern civil society.
- SyzygistSix 4y agoQuality sex education and martial arts?
- krapp 4y agoMore like a rigid patriarchal class hierarchy that harnessed male violence and sexual aggression into "noble" and "gentlemanly" codes of behavior, in other words, "masculinity," where sending boys off to war was considered a good way to condition them into men, and a list of sexual exploits before marriage was a signal of masculine virtue, at least among elites. And the parameters of masculinity are far more culturally than biologically imposed, so they change over time and place.