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The virtues of promiscuity
The SF Chronicle ^ | August 20 2002 | Sally Lehrman

Posted on 08/20/2002 5:19:31 AM PDT by 2Trievers

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

"Slutty" behavior is good for the species. That's the conclusion of a new wave of research on the evolutionary drives behind sexuality and parenting.

Women everywhere have been selflessly engaging in trysts outside of matrimony for a good long time and for excellent reasons. Anthropologists say female promiscuity binds communities closer together and improves the gene pool.


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To: 2Trievers
"This model of the death-do-us-part, missionary-position couple is just a tiny part of human history

Bullsh*t. More relativist crap. Just because they found other behaviors, practiced by evolutionary and cultural dead-end tribes which account for a small minority of human societies, it does not therefore follow that the western model is the minority view.

If this behavior pattern were so successful, then why are the societies which practice it still living in the stone age?

61 posted on 08/20/2002 6:46:37 AM PDT by LouD
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To: 2Trievers
Well, maybe its all fun and games in an isolated tribe, but extending this idea to a big city and the real winners of the reproduction jackpot will be the VD germs.
62 posted on 08/20/2002 6:47:48 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: bvw
I believe I saw a show about them on Discovery. These people are not as free spirited as the liberal would like us to believe. Female promiscuity engenders quite a bit of jelousy and altercations within these tribes.
63 posted on 08/20/2002 6:48:55 AM PDT by Ajnin
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To: LouD; 2Trievers
If this behavior pattern were so successful, then why are the societies which practice it still living in the stone age?

Thou dost protest too much... LewD.




64 posted on 08/20/2002 6:48:55 AM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: MurryMom

$0.02

65 posted on 08/20/2002 6:51:42 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Bush2000
Some of these same tribes practice witchcraft, self-mutilation, and cannibalism. More "virtues"?

To say nothing of drilling a hole in your head to cure a headache. ;)

Regards, Ivan

66 posted on 08/20/2002 6:52:26 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: 2Trievers
While Ms. Lehrman is extolling the primal paradise of stone-age societies, Muslim missionaries are converting these savages to Islamic morality.
67 posted on 08/20/2002 6:54:21 AM PDT by Alouette
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To: MadIvan
"So basically we can be promiscuous and be "progressive" like people in the Amazon who live in mud huts. Or we can be "regressive" and monogamous and live in modern industrial societies. Hmm."

No, no. You just didn't get it. Here it is: "...evolution has nudged women a bit toward promiscuity and sexual adventure. In all well-studied primates, females exhibit a polyandrous tendency when given the opportunity to stray..." This obviously means that as nothing more than naked apes, we don't have any more morals than chimps or baboons. < /sarcasm>

68 posted on 08/20/2002 6:54:54 AM PDT by redhead
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To: banjo joe
Whatever happened to the evidence that incidence of cervical cancer increases with the number of sexual partners?

They die from [insert insect or water born disease of the day here] before they get old enough to get it...

69 posted on 08/20/2002 6:55:23 AM PDT by Axenolith
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To: redhead
This obviously means that as nothing more than naked apes, we don't have any more morals than chimps or baboons.

Well that explains the Democrats, wouldn't you say? ;)

Regards, Ivan

70 posted on 08/20/2002 6:57:07 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: bert
The best evidence of the truth of this article are the large black communities in American cities. Promiscuity is the rule and the blacks have wonderful lives filled with the goodness produced by successful and prosperous life style. They also feel good about it all. The crack they smoke enhances rather than obscure the wonders of happy life.

The cleaners called. You can pick up your white sheet and robe whenever you're ready.

71 posted on 08/20/2002 6:58:16 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: bert
Unfortunate racist remarks by you Bert. This kind of stuff crosses racial lines.
I attended mostly white high school and college, If there would have been no sluts I would have had no fun at all! ;-)
72 posted on 08/20/2002 6:58:47 AM PDT by Moleman
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To: MurryMom
LOL! If men desire only 18-1000 partners in a lifetime, then why do Repukie pols like Bobdole, Newtie, Watermelon Dan, and "Hank" Hyde have so many more than the average? Inquiring minds like MurryMom would like to know.

Why don't you go ask the "faithful" Clintax, and almost any Kennedy.

Did we forget Gary Condit, too?

While we are at it, there is at least one democrat senator that'd love to tell of his wonderful experiences in the KKK.

73 posted on 08/20/2002 7:02:09 AM PDT by AlGone2001
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To: Sabertooth
WWSMD?

That's not "What Would Strippy Mom Do?", is it?????

74 posted on 08/20/2002 7:02:09 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Bush2000
Some of these same tribes practice witchcraft, self-mutilation, and cannibalism. More "virtues"?

How can you be so judgemental?

75 posted on 08/20/2002 7:03:06 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Dimensio
I don't see a value assesment in the article, and as an anthropological study a value assesment of any sort would be inappropriate anyway.

I want to tell you -- NOW -- how to make joyfull rejoicing plastic explosive from materials you already have at home or can easily pick up in a short jaunt around town. High explosives are an interesting pasttime that in other less-myopic and straight-laced cultures are enjoyed by many, young and old. Let us learn and try this stuff together, in great joy!

To start we need some nail polish remover ...

* * * * *

Now picture me as the kind and beloved, or cute and interesting anthorpology or sociology professor at your kid's college. Young people, their opinions on high explosives unformed, their experience (by poetic liscense I beg you this) of high explosive nil, or little.

Would I be wise to so present the material "value free" -- without also presenting a serious and careful introduction to safety and danger? Would I be wise to even present such material to introductory or mid-level students?

Oh and you'll note that my presentation wasn't value-free was it. Nor is this material and other material about the "free-loving" indians, in particulars and in overall effect it is very sympathetic, endorsing, suggesting it is a beter way. Such suggestions create create dangers and troubles for the young men and women who are exposed to them. It is a mean and rotten thing to do, for this material must be presented with great cautions to a general or young audience, or to a very carefull selected very mature, older audience.

76 posted on 08/20/2002 7:05:06 AM PDT by bvw
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To: MurryMom
You forgot Hilesbian???? Nice to know they let you have some computer time at the asylum!

Pray for GW and the Truth

77 posted on 08/20/2002 7:07:43 AM PDT by bray
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To: bert
The best evidence of the truth of this article are the large black communities in American cities.

And what the hell is that supposed to mean?

Promiscuity is the rule and the blacks have wonderful lives filled with the goodness produced by successful and prosperous life style. They also feel good about it all. The crack they smoke enhances rather than obscure the wonders of happy life.

Where do you get off with that kind of generalization?

You've been watching far, far too much liberal clap-trap on the tube.

No soup for you -- one year!

79 posted on 08/20/2002 7:11:05 AM PDT by mhking
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To: banjo joe; bert
Your source for your "brilliant" deductive reasoning, gentlemen?

Or are you going to use that same broad brush of yours to paint your white sheets?

80 posted on 08/20/2002 7:12:59 AM PDT by mhking
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