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Our ancestors' junk did fall off regularly. I'm not sure whether their methods were perfect.
by adrianN 4y ago
Our ancestors' junk did fall off regularly. I'm not sure whether their methods were perfect.
- tgv 4y agoThey did have a much smaller partner pool, though, which is a prevention measure. But just use condoms.
- capitol_ 4y agoHow sure are we really about that? There is an large amount of history backwards in time, and not a large amount of reliable documentation regarding the amount of partners people had.
- tgv 4y agoIt's not about the number of partners, but the size of the pool. Diseases spread via contact. If 500 women have 10 partners from the pool of 500 men in a village, chances of spreading e.g. gonorrhea are smaller than when 500k women when 10 partners from a pool of 500k men in a city. And I'm relatively sure that in smaller communities there's less chance of anonymous sex: the social control, lower frequency of encounters. Imagine the opposite: 1000 years ago, AIDS and gonorrhea spreading all over the world at current rates (88 million cases of gonorrhea per year) without any medication or protection. That would have ravaged the population, or made us immune, but neither happened.