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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I heard once (maybe in a book or podcast, can't remember) that in tribal times thousands of years ago, it was about community. Women would sleep with many men to create a 'sperm race'. The best and strongest sperm would win the race and thus create the best and strongest child. The child would then be raised by the entire community as a collective.
In fact women would make loud noises during sex to attract other men to her (seeing that she was enjoying it). I guess incest didn't matter back then.
It's interesting to me that today's society it is totally opposite. Women are not supposed to enjoy sex or attract many men. I know it's more open in the western world but women are still stigmatized as sluts or someone's 'old shoes' (a common chinese expresion).
I wonder how, where, when and what caused to shift from one extreme to another.
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Monotheistic and organized religion. And it wasn't all about controlling the women either. Those at the top end of the power structures found out you could control the men, by controlling the women. Basically by controlling the sexuality of a culture. If a man is getting the sex he desires, he doesn't really care about too much else. If you take that away from him you can get him to go to war, follow your lead, engage in behaviors that you want him to.
Course the women had to pay the worst prices of this.