Polyamory

[PhaonsBrother]

We've been post -agriworld for quite some time now. The "thinness" of the veneer of culture is very much up for debate. Most hunter-gatherer societies today live in social structures completely fucked over from whatever they were by a postindustrial and postcolonial world - but when you find neolithic man do let us know how we're doing it wrong, because the success of his social structures has brought the industrial world to its knees - oh, wait.

The major feature of homo sapiens is this giant frontal grey stuff which does these amazing
external adaptations every year or so, like ipods and twitter and a slightly different gear box on this year's Audi and sexting. You are typing into a thing that has revolutionized sexuality for a large chunk of the world.

Sweetheart-on-a-highfalutin-tart, we live within the confines of the Neolithic Revolution, the first agricultural revolution and settlements that became Jericho, Damascus, Byblos etc. The social structures were formed within this transition and have changed very little. Romantic love has nothing to do with the way the rest of the world forms marriages and up until about the 20th Century had nothing to do with the way English speakers paired off. There's little reason to doubt that Neolithic man paired off into something similar to what's considered a household today in Lebanon or Jordan or Mexico. Industry didn't change marriage, it created smaller households.

The reason social anthropology and archaeology have the veneer of a science is because there exists many hunter-gatherer societies today with social structures and technologies that have changed very little in the past 8000-10000 years. Because these societies and artifacts exist we can paint a picture of the world pre-industry, pre-feudal, pre-city, pre-agriculture.

 

[PhaonsBrother]

Netzach,

So you are saying that sex drive is NOT necessarily controled by one hormone? Personally, I agree that hormones are a specific factor, but it is nieve to think that sex drive is controlled by one thing. I could probably come up with 30 things that controll drive in only 1% of all people. Not to mention the things that controll sex drive in 15% of all people.

I don't discount testosterone as a force for one second, but there are a number of hormones and hormonal catalysts that influence brain chemistry alone. THAT doesn't even get into neural anatomy phenomena. Oh and there is the nature vs nurture thing too. Pavlov had something to say about our reactions to stimuli.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone

"Like men, women rely on testosterone to maintain libido, bone density and muscle mass throughout their lives..."

"Left untreated, with low in testosterone levels will experience loss of libido which in turn can often cause relationship stress, and loss of bone and muscle mass throughout their lives...

"...Conversely, increased androgen steroids (e.g. testosterone) generally have a positive correlation with libido in both sexes."

"Adult testosterone effects are more clearly demonstrable in males than in females, but are likely important to both sexes. Some of these effects may decline as testosterone levels decrease in the later decades of adult life.

* Libido and clitoral engorgement/penile erection frequency"

Sex drive is controlled primarily by one hormone. 90% of sex drive is simple hormone production.

 

[jdntdp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone

"Like men, women rely on testosterone to maintain libido, bone density and muscle mass throughout their lives..."

"Left untreated, with low in testosterone levels will experience loss of libido which in turn can often cause relationship stress, and loss of bone and muscle mass throughout their lives...

"...Conversely, increased androgen steroids (e.g. testosterone) generally have a positive correlation with libido in both sexes."

"Adult testosterone effects are more clearly demonstrable in males than in females, but are likely important to both sexes. Some of these effects may decline as testosterone levels decrease in the later decades of adult life.

* Libido and clitoral engorgement/penile erection frequency"

Sex drive is controlled primarily by one hormone. 90% of sex drive is simple hormone production.

Well, if you want to hang your education on the subject to Wiki, than you do that. I will hold to my years of training in medicine. I get it.. Testosterone is important. As you can see above, I do NOT discount that. But one hormone is not worth hanging your argument on.

 

[PhaonsBrother]

Well, if you want to hang your education on the subject to Wiki, than you do that. I will hold to my years of training in medicine. I get it.. Testosterone is important. As you can see above, I do NOT discount that. But one hormone is not worth hanging your argument on.

ok, Professor LPN, CNA, PCA

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