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| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
America as a collective whole has a very unhealthy, repressed view of human sexuality, and I believe this is the primary reason why the mainstream media plays this stuff up so much.
I mean this really goes without saying.
In terms of evolutionary psychology the two purposes of human life are survival and reproduction (replication of our genes), so scientifically, this repressed view of sexuality is one that is intrinsically against nature.
It is really our more primitive brains, such as the reptilian and mammalian that run the show even though many people like to believe it is their conscious mind (ego) that runs the show.
Religion and culture are all constructs of the ego, so they have little significance when our more primitive brains want us to do something (i.e. survive, mate).
Of course in a country of 300 million, there is a great variety of people with different mating strategies and this plays itself out at the cultural and political levels.
Actually in most any large society you will find a range of individuals with different mating strategies that people feel strongly about. One will be dominant, but not exclusively so. |
Excellent post
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