Orgy or beer? Choose one
In the book "Sex at Dawn," Christopher Ryan and Jethou Cacilda belie the notion of sexual monogamy as something intrinsically human, saying that we gave orgies because of agriculture. "Agriculture" probably means "beer". We exchanged orgy by the beers?
Provided lover drinks as much sex, this is the most perplexing existential question that I have ever faced: I will gladly give up having easy access to alcohol to have easier access to more sexual partners?
* Before humans organize themselves into civilizations, we were composed of small bands of hunter / gatherers, without the slightest notion of sexual monogamy. Within our small tribes, most people had multiple partners - primarily from within the tribe, but with some occasional escapes to keep the gene pool interesting. The children had multiple "social parents", jealousy practically non-existent and relatively easy access to calories keep us healthy, happy and satisfied until 70 or 80 - provided that we could pass unscathed through the dangers of high mortality rates expected in the wild and primitive medicine.
* With the discovery of agriculture, the nomadic displacement was no longer possible. Somebody had to water the plants. So ideas of property and inheritance unfortunately become useful. The grown food could become scarce, unlike the effectively infinite supply of an activity of hunting and gathering (ignoring the occasional bad weather and strikes gambling activity), then make a reservation became necessary to ensure the calories even in times of scarcity . Farming provides a hard, therefore became important to ensure that the fruits of their hard work was not going to the mouth of the child of another person, especially if it meant his son would need. Hence monogamy, marriage and unhappy concept of ownership as partners, as manifested in society then as a tendency to see women as personal belongings.
* Our genes also configured with sexual freedom, made us very hate being monogamous, but social pressure - including coded centered religions - forced men and women in agreements that have caused new problems to the same extent that solved old ones. Men cheat, women with sexual frustrations rot (or cheat), wars are initiated by exclusivity of resources or sex. A section and the Old Testament, Wrath of God.
This summary ignores much that is legal in Sex at Dawn (our similarities sex with the closest relatives, bonobos, the dismantling of the idea that most animals are monogamous, the absolutely outrageous human appetite for sex and our genitals correspondingly enormous, and so on) but it is enough to make clear the part that is needed for what I want to say that agriculture has fundamentally changed human sexuality.
The human liver is specially equipped to metabolize alcohol, with about 10 percent of its machinery of enzymes dedicated to generating energy from alcohol. Our olfactory organs can perceive alcoholic aromas with ease, and our other senses detect the myriad of compounds that permeate the ripe fruit.
For ages primates "rejoiced" with too many ripe fruits, honey or fermented grains collected and macerated who passed the point of one day to another. (Primates are the only animals that are high, too, though the stories of drunken elephants are unfortunately probably just hype.) We spent millions of years getting drunk whenever possible, to evolve our bodies to help them cope with their point this, but just picking up where we could find goro, or making fermented beverages and simple, if circumstances were favorable.
But then one fine day there are tens of thousands of years, someone had the bright idea of farming. I'm sure it seemed a good idea at the time. Who would complain about the possibility of getting drunk the time I wanted? (A liquor cabinet or wine cellar is well filled my personal measure of success of a person at least.) And nobody but Benjamin Franklyn, architect of a modern society, said that "beer is proof that God loves and wants us happy. "
Little did that intrepid pioneer farm in just a few generations that lazy and unpredictable era of travel, and occasional casual sex orgies watered the ripe fruit would accept the terrible force of civilization. Everything that we might bring some cans of Brahma home at the end of the day.
In the book "Sex at Dawn," Christopher Ryan and Jethou Cacilda belie the notion of sexual monogamy as something intrinsically human, saying that we gave orgies because of agriculture. "Agriculture" probably means "beer". We exchanged orgy by the beers?
Provided lover drinks as much sex, this is the most perplexing existential question that I have ever faced: I will gladly give up having easy access to alcohol to have easier access to more sexual partners?
* Before humans organize themselves into civilizations, we were composed of small bands of hunter / gatherers, without the slightest notion of sexual monogamy. Within our small tribes, most people had multiple partners - primarily from within the tribe, but with some occasional escapes to keep the gene pool interesting. The children had multiple "social parents", jealousy practically non-existent and relatively easy access to calories keep us healthy, happy and satisfied until 70 or 80 - provided that we could pass unscathed through the dangers of high mortality rates expected in the wild and primitive medicine.
* With the discovery of agriculture, the nomadic displacement was no longer possible. Somebody had to water the plants. So ideas of property and inheritance unfortunately become useful. The grown food could become scarce, unlike the effectively infinite supply of an activity of hunting and gathering (ignoring the occasional bad weather and strikes gambling activity), then make a reservation became necessary to ensure the calories even in times of scarcity . Farming provides a hard, therefore became important to ensure that the fruits of their hard work was not going to the mouth of the child of another person, especially if it meant his son would need. Hence monogamy, marriage and unhappy concept of ownership as partners, as manifested in society then as a tendency to see women as personal belongings.
* Our genes also configured with sexual freedom, made us very hate being monogamous, but social pressure - including coded centered religions - forced men and women in agreements that have caused new problems to the same extent that solved old ones. Men cheat, women with sexual frustrations rot (or cheat), wars are initiated by exclusivity of resources or sex. A section and the Old Testament, Wrath of God.
This summary ignores much that is legal in Sex at Dawn (our similarities sex with the closest relatives, bonobos, the dismantling of the idea that most animals are monogamous, the absolutely outrageous human appetite for sex and our genitals correspondingly enormous, and so on) but it is enough to make clear the part that is needed for what I want to say that agriculture has fundamentally changed human sexuality.
The human liver is specially equipped to metabolize alcohol, with about 10 percent of its machinery of enzymes dedicated to generating energy from alcohol. Our olfactory organs can perceive alcoholic aromas with ease, and our other senses detect the myriad of compounds that permeate the ripe fruit.
For ages primates "rejoiced" with too many ripe fruits, honey or fermented grains collected and macerated who passed the point of one day to another. (Primates are the only animals that are high, too, though the stories of drunken elephants are unfortunately probably just hype.) We spent millions of years getting drunk whenever possible, to evolve our bodies to help them cope with their point this, but just picking up where we could find goro, or making fermented beverages and simple, if circumstances were favorable.
But then one fine day there are tens of thousands of years, someone had the bright idea of farming. I'm sure it seemed a good idea at the time. Who would complain about the possibility of getting drunk the time I wanted? (A liquor cabinet or wine cellar is well filled my personal measure of success of a person at least.) And nobody but Benjamin Franklyn, architect of a modern society, said that "beer is proof that God loves and wants us happy. "
Little did that intrepid pioneer farm in just a few generations that lazy and unpredictable era of travel, and occasional casual sex orgies watered the ripe fruit would accept the terrible force of civilization. Everything that we might bring some cans of Brahma home at the end of the day.