Round table discussion about monogamy

[Oyoy]

Heres a book about the evolution of monogamy. It explains how with agriculture came the notion of forming a family. It explains that when we were Hunter gatherers it didn't matter who the dad was.
https://fourminutebooks.com/sex-at-dawn-summary/

 

[Oyoy]

 

[Oyoy]

This is a quote-

What gets cultivated – in soil and minds – is not necessarily beneficial to the individuals in a given society. Something may benefit a culture overall, while being disastrous to the majority of the individual members of that society. Individuals suffer and die in wars from which a society may benefit greatly. Industrial poisons in the air and water, globalized trade accords, genetically modified crops… all are accepted by individuals likely to end up losing in the deal. [83]

 

[K-O]

Heres a book about the evolution of monogamy. It explains how with agriculture came the notion of forming a family. It explains that when we were Hunter gatherers it didn't matter who the dad was.
https://fourminutebooks.com/sex-at-dawn-summary/

reading this made me so fucking horny..

 

[Oyoy]

That arthor said many of the women who read the book had to masterbate about ten times but it didn't have that affect on men. He said a long time ago people believed that the more different men that came inside a woman that the babies would take on all the best attributes of the men.

 

[K-O]

That arthor said many of the women who read the book had to masterbate about ten times but it didn't have that affect on men. He said a long time ago people believed that the more different men that came inside a woman that the babies would take on all the best attributes of the men.

too bad for society im not having kids then..

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Bloody agriculture, I blame it for everything.

 

[LastRide]

I'm just wondering who took care of the women in the hunting/gathering society when they were pregnant or had small children to look after? Which meant they could not actively participate in proving food for the tribe. Was there some kind of "shared responsibility" by all other members of the tribe towards them? Or did they just have to look after themselves and their offspring? Yes, shagging around is a lot of fun, giving birth and raising children might not be if you're not monogamous....

 

[Oyoy]

I don't think anyone knew who there dad was. It seems like it was survival more then obligations.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I'm just wondering who took care of the women in the hunting/gathering society when they were pregnant or had small children to look after? Which meant they could not actively participate in proving food for the tribe. Was there some kind of "shared responsibility" by all other members of the tribe towards them? Or did they just have to look after themselves and their offspring? Yes, shagging around is a lot of fun, giving birth and raising children might not be if you're not monogamous....

I suspect the seeds of the family unit were sown long before agriculture was prevalent. There was generally much more of a gradual shift from hunter gatherer societies, through short term cultivation of wild crops to mobile transhumance agriculture and eventually settled pastoralism and crop growing.