Study: Prehistoric Man Had Sex for Fun

Fox News ^ | Sunday, April 29, 2007 | Unknown

[cougar_mccxxi]

He may have come down from the trees, but prehistoric man did not stop swinging. New research into Stone Age humans has argued that, far from having intercourse simply to reproduce, they had sex for fun.

Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies as a way of building up cultural ties.

[Popman]

I’m still trying to figure out how they get transvestism, group sex and sex toys out of a couple of statues.

They must be projecting their own behavior.

[SoldierMedic]

That got me thinking. Suppose, instead of being predecessors, they are successors -- that is, they are what humans become, over a long enough course of generations, if unredeemed, if left to their own predilection to turn away from their Creator.

And thus was born... THE PLANET OF THE APES!

[elcid1970]

“Tina’s here! We’re getting back together!”

[LibFreeOrDie]

Tinothy Taylor’s research interest is “theoretical archaeology”:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/cgi-bin/staff.cgi?tftaylor

[D-fendr]

may help overturn false assumptions that sex for the purposes of reproduction is the form closest to nature.

Someone has confused human nature for Natural Law. And God help us if we we base our morality on what it "closest to nature."

[CaptRon]

Well, that one guy and his girlfriend are getting back together.

[dfwgator]

What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.
When the only people that existed were troglodytes...cave men...
cave women...Neanderthal...troglodytes. Let’s take the average
cave man at home, listening to his stereo. Sometimes he’d get up,
try to do his thing. He’d begin to move, something like this:
“Dance...dance”. When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look
in the mirror: “Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a
woman gotta find a woman”. He’d go down to the lake where all the
woman would be swimming or washing clothes or something. He’d look
around and just reach in and grab one. “Come here...come here”.
He’d grab her by the hair. You can’t do that today, fellas, cause
it might come off. You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d
be swimming away from you (ha-ha). This one woman just lay there,
wet and frightened. He said: “Move...move”. She got up. She was a
big woman. BIG woman. Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one
of the Butt sisters. He didn’t care. He looked up at her and said:
“Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me
sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me!”. She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said
(falsetto):
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”. He said: “Wha?”. She said (falsetto):
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”. You know what he said? He started it way
back then. I wouldn’t lie to you. When she said (falsetto)
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy” he said “Right on! Right on! Hotpants!
Hotpants! Ugh...ugh...ugh

[verum ago]

I know leftists like to rewrite history, but prehistory? We simply cannot know what sexual practices were 30000 years and any speculation along those lines is just that- speculation. But at least it isn't entirely baseless speculation like claiming our ancestors were avid transvestites based on stone artifacts.

Petra Boynton, a relationship counselor and health lecturer at University College, London, found the study “refreshing.”

“So much evolutionary theory promotes the idea that humans, particularly women, are preprogrammed for monogamy, but that is often simply overlaying science on a pre-existing view of society,”

And this isn't someone else masquerading their own pre-conceived views on society as science? Good to know relationship counselors are suddenly experts on prehistoric promiscuous homosexual ape sex. Next thing you know the mortar and pestle in a nearby museum will be renamed mortar and pestle/dildo.

Sounds like it's time for some grant money, tenures, and degrees to be revoked.

[verum ago]

he other day I noticed a picture, on the subway, of what appeared to be a primate. Its eyes, whether real or photoshopped, looked unmistakeably...intelligent, aware, human.

That got me thinking. Suppose, instead of being predecessors, they are successors -- that is, they are what humans become, over a long enough course of generations, if unredeemed, if left to their own predilection to turn away from their Creator.

Hey, it was just a thought.

Planet of the Apes and The Time Machine come to mind.

[cripplecreek]

Damn, I forgot all about beta.

[JRios1968]

Ping...but I don’t know why...

[the invisib1e hand]

oh, so it’s apparently not so whacky an idea. I never really watched those movies. Didn’t get into that series about the rat, either. What was it, “Ben?” I was too busy watching the Rockford Files.

[verum ago]

Timothy Taylor
researcher
"theoretical archaeologist"
and desperate man

[Grut]

Heck, why not? Bonobos have sex for fun all the time - literally! - so primitive man probably had it pretty well figured out, too.

[scrabblehack]

the “tool” man?

[GoLightly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRXQEA0yj0

[Chickensoup]

Timothy Taylor
researcher
“theoretical archaeologist”
and desperate man

Looks like he couldn’t get a date in a pitch-dark bathhouse.

[John123]

OTOH, some other primates have pretty active and varied sex lives.

And how do you know about this?

[John123]

a 30,000-year-old statue of a naked woman -- the Venus of Willendorf -- and an equally ancient stone phallus found in a German cave, provide the earliest direct evidence that sex was about far more than babies.

Direct evidence?

Don't you know art when you see it? Philistine!

[Sherman Logan]

Well, I’ve read about some of the monkeys and apes. They party pretty hard, particularly the howler monkeys.

Chimpanzees practice war and cannibalism.

Orangutans are big on rape.

The natural world isn’t always all that nice.