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How different would civilization be if humans had "mating season" ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don't care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can't resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.

How would this impact the civilisation ?

I know about David Brin's *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.

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[+] slazer2au -37 points 4 months ago (6 children)

O.O

Do you want to read this part again slowly, out loud, then consider this from a female point of view.

non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can't resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.

Women have enough problems with unwanted male interaction, not to mention so many lies about women's anatomy. This makes it so much worse.

[–] gibmiser 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What, are you above biology? The guy is asking how things would be different if we were biologically similar to other animals thar have mating seasons.

Maybe sex wouldn't have the same stigmas. Maybe we wouldn't care who a child's father was and would raise our partners children as our own.

Maybe there would be less creepy aggressive people since presumably it would be easier for them to have their sexual needs met. Maybe the ones that still act aggressively are quickly delta with and somehow excluded or punished.

Maybe maybe maybe. Thought experiment. Hypothetical. Relax.

Are you just off-put assuming that this is some guys sexual fantasy?

[–] breadsmasher 40 points 4 months ago

its a hypothetical situation

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's a fair point, and indeed, it looks like pretty awful, you're right that I could have phrased it better.

The worst, is that the question came when reading stuff like Being a cat girl must be cool and I was thinking about how cat reproduce making being a cat girl pretty uncool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Women have enough problems with unwanted male interaction, not to mention so many lies about women's anatomy. This makes it so much worse.

In this hypothetical, men switch from having a sexual interest in women 52/52 weeks a year to 4/52 weeks a year. I would expect a >92% reduction in "unwanted male interaction".

[–] Feathercrown 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you want to read this part again slowly, out loud

If you ever see yourself typing this, please realize that it will have the opposite effect than intended, because this is super obnoxious to say to people