Less Wrong is a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality. Please visit our About page for more information.

WrongBot comments on Why is our sex drive too strong? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: PhilGoetz 08 December 2010 05:02PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (23)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: WrongBot 08 December 2010 06:02:21PM 14 points [-]

I don't have it handy to grab specifics, but Sex at Dawn discusses a couple dozen different cultures in which promiscuity is the norm. Some of those cultures shame the non-promiscuous, to varying extents.

Human society as we currently know it is less than 10,000 years old. That's an incredibly short timescale for major evolutionary changes.