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>insane taboo and uptightness about sex and nudity we have in society // In the UK we're on aggregate definitely too uptight about nudity, but sex ... inhibiti
by pbhjpbhj 4y ago
>insane taboo and uptightness about sex and nudity we have in society //
In the UK we're on aggregate definitely too uptight about nudity, but sex ... inhibition towards things like infidelity, promiscuity, fecundity, seems like a relatively good thing. Sex being the preserve of committed relationships is not a problem to fix to my view.
It sounds like you think we should basically be bonobos? Preoccupied with carnal interactions to the exclusion of all else?
- ben_w 4y agoI have sometimes thought that it's a shame humans came from the sadistically violent branch of the primate family rather than the constantly horny branch. Even before I learned about the horny branch of primates, as a teenager in the UK I thought it was very weird that media — games, films, TV shows, books, etc. — were all able to depict lethal violence to young audiences, while conversely consensual sex was something we could only witness when we were two years above the age of consent in the UK.
- practice9 4y ago> Preoccupied with carnal interactions to the exclusion of all else? I think the poster means that people are already too preoccupied with banning sex to the detriment of everything else. It leads to various perversions like normalization of violence through loopholes in the media. “Fantasy violence” is an amusing term. Although to be fair, loli and some weird anime stuff generated by AI nowadays is on the opposite end of this spectrum.
- visarga 4y agoWhy is inhibition against fecundity a good thing. It's the ability to produce an abundance of offspring. Birth rate is much lower than 2.1 in many places