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In reply to the discussion: More data driven science on how Porn can be beneficial to people and their relationships. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)11. There has been some interesting analysis done on the hypothetical evolutionary pressures
not just, obviously, to cause men to tend towards more visual arousal, but also, interestingly enough, on what might cause women in small hunter-gatherer groups to feel a need towards, indeed to feel empowered to place themselves in charge of, limiting the general sexual availability in the group.
This might explain not just the seemingly incomprehensible freak-out that images of sex cause in some women, but also why it often seems to be women and not men who engage in 'slut-shaming' behaviors in groups.
I think it may be a hard-wired primate control impulse, but of course one that is wholly inappropriate (and indeed at times goes completely bugfuck haywire, apparently) in our media-rich, pluralistic environment.
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More data driven science on how Porn can be beneficial to people and their relationships. [View all]
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2012
OP
Yeah, I'd like one of the four jurors who voted to hide to explain SPECIFICALLY
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2012
#2
I've actually thought of posting in one of the women's groups once or twice in the past..
Upton
Apr 2012
#3
I do post there, sometimes, since I'm genuinely interested in equality for everyone.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2012
#4
I'll go one step further that it's easier to have an open and honest discussion about....
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Apr 2012
#9
From what I've seen, most self identified female feminists are pro choice & sex positive too.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2012
#10
That's because the 2nd wave radical feminists are becoming more and more rare
Major Nikon
May 2012
#22
There has been some interesting analysis done on the hypothetical evolutionary pressures
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2012
#11
I guess That, ah, entity missed the radfem polemic on 1984, specifically that it was Orwell writing
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#15
And apostrophes are the patriarchy's way of phallopressing our sentence structures.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#18
If nothing else, it should at least cause some to question the validity of radical feminist 'theory'
Major Nikon
May 2012
#21
"His research told him "there is an inverse causal relationship between an increase in pornography
Bonobo
Apr 2013
#27
The sexual landscape in America has changed rather dramatically. It's why yoga pants are everywhere.
Exultant Democracy
Apr 2013
#33
Yoga pants... or why I refuse to drive a car on a college campus. Safer to park and walk.
Exultant Democracy
Apr 2013
#37