Comments | roseembolism: Under the Green Moon: Sex, Reproduction and Family, Part 1

roseembolism

Under the Green Moon: Sex, Reproduction and Family, Part 1

Dec 28, 2012 21:38

I've been having a bit of trouble locking down this complicated and contentious issue, especially because reproduction is linked to the status of women. So if these thoughts seem random, it's because well, they still are, and I can use input, bearing in mind this is a "Hard Fantasy" setting.
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heron61 December 29 2012, 06:26:38 UTC

I like it. I can also see some effectively universal (largely because they are seriously ancient) genetic tweaks for everything from voluntary ovulation (& and possibly sperm production), some increased resistance to infections, and some other tweaks to make childbrith easier and safer ( ... )

mindstalk December 29 2012, 18:08:47 UTC

"almost certainly the rate of homosexuality significantly higher than our own 10%"

Why?
(And the 10% seems dubious too.)

heron61 December 29 2012, 22:25:06 UTC

Even in openly homophobic cultures, the rate of situational homosexuality among men and (although this has been less studied) among women is well higher than 10%. Then, add in the fact of various cultures were homosexual/bisexual behavior was the norm, at least in some situations (ranging from ritual homosexuality in upland New Guinea, to homosexual behavior in the Classical world), and it definitely looks to me like the Western World's rate of homosexuality and bisexuality has artificially low (almost certainly due to the still high, but also gradually declining rate of homophobia, and the more pervasive fact that homosexuality is outside the range of cultural norms - although all of this is changing rather rapidly).

Genetics may play a part in sexual preference, but all the data I've seen makes it look like genetics at most plays the same role it does with intelligence ( ie well less than most people think), here's my own analogy-based take on the origins of sexual preference.

roseembolism December 30 2012, 06:40:03 UTC

I like the way you're thinking. I see based on thousands of years of available contraceptives, and the remaining memories of past civilizations, egalitarianism would be common- especially in the civilizations directly descended from the last Great Civilization ( ... )