Family, Sex, Anthropology, and Marriage

The American Conservative ^ | July 28, 2003 | Peter Wood

[ronnietherocket2]

Want to know what it really means for a society to recognize “gay marriage”? Or for a society to permit polygamy? Or when the stigma on out-of-wedlock birth disappears? Care to know what happens to a human community that tolerates sexual experimentation among pre-adolescents and teenagers? Are fathers and mothers really interchangeable? ...

Among the Etoro, a tribe of about 400 living by hunting and small-scale gardening in the Stickland-Bosavi district of Papua New Guinea, from around age 12, every boy is “inseminated” orally more or less daily by a young man who is assigned to him as a partner. Late in his teenage years, an Etoro boy is formally initiated in an event involving many male sex partners, after which he becomes an “inseminator” rather than an “inseminee.” In due course, the former older male partner often marries the younger man’s sister.

... This is not a “slippery slope” forecast. It is more definite than that, since we know for a fact that everywhere and at every time human societies have made plural marriage an option, this is what happens. Given a free market and no rules against plural marriage, human beings will find themselves in a hierarchy dominated by older men with multiple younger wives.

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Recently, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) provoked an outcry when he observed, “If the Supreme Court says you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery, you have the right to anything.” Among the replies posted on the Internet, I noted these:

[ronnietherocket2]

An interesting article about where our culture is headed in comparison with previous cultures. Don't ask me how I came across it.

[sinanju]

Interesting article, but the sidebar ad for Atlantis All-Gay Cruises was a tad distracting...

[Maelstorm]

There are a few tribes that allow for all kinds of horrid primitive behavior.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Serving as “experiments” by which we can observe the social consequences of bizarre human practices without the ethical problem of having asked or tempted them to do it.

[Maelstorm]

Very good article. Thanks for the post. This is exactly the kind of reasoned approach that should be taken. It is not new that cultures that accept Homosexuality almost always end up accepting molestation and pedophilia.

[Quix]

A very powerful piece.

imho . . .

every legislator
every judge
every teacher
every Jr High student
every pregnant couple

should be REQUIRED
to memorize
the 12
most important
paragraphs
of that piece.

And the satanic engineers of our current individually and socially destructive chaos . . . ought to have to memorize said paragraphs and then eat them printed on very distasteful paper.

And then they ought to be neutered.

And then exiled to remote islands segregated by sex.

There ARE consequences to and in the social fabric of society . . . for all kinds of 'private' behaviors. The lies otherwise are seductive and destructive deceptions literally from hell.

The inmates of the assylum are NOT the best designers of the rules.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Given a free market and no rules against plural marriage, human beings will find themselves in a hierarchy dominated by older men with multiple younger wives.

Dang. That's a better argument in favor of gay marriage than the ones they're peddling now.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Even modern “civilized” Western man is offering himself willy nilly as examples to be observed. You look at these big garish Pride events and you see that it’s truly libido run wild. No, they don’t represent the leanings of every single homosexual, but they dominate the cultural expression of the vice. Imagine the Village People where they forcibly gang up on you instead of just showing off. This is the end of that kind of thing. Hmm, it seems there is an ancient holy book with a similar account.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Evolution is only possible with HETEROSEXUAL relationships.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Since evolution is only possible with HETEROSEXUAL relationships, homosexuals really want to destroy life and are enemies of the “evironment.”

[Quix]

INDEED.

Some of the paragraphs in that article were priceless. I should pull them out and make a handout of them for students.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Here is the link to this article on Digg, if you wish to digg it:

http://digg.com/d310dDF

[ronnietherocket2]

Yeah...

Kind of ruins the message eh?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

You have something against Gay seamen?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The first sexual revolution which encouraged women to be as sexually "free" as men had essentially the same effect.

Women were told that they could control their own sex lives for once and for all.

Only problem is that if every man can choose amongst every woman, then the rich old powerful dudes will most likely kick their liberated wives to the curb in favor of trophy bimbos.