https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Not to bad...i guess unless you like wars and such.
Many jungle and south seas tribes are 100% sexually liberated. Most western cultures would not be comfortable with the amount of incest and sex with children that goes on. Also, if it happened to our current world, everyone would go blind and insane due to incurable STDs.
I am really curious where the "sexually liberated ancient world" myth comes from.
Both Romans and Greeks were highly patriarchal. Greeks more than the Romans.
Women had relatively few rights and little in the way of sexual autonomy.
Prostitution was common place as was likely the sexual abuse of slaves but while one isn't terribly different from our times the other was mostly a practice only those of the patrician class who could afford slaves would engage in. (The average Roman wasn't a slave owner.)
Greeks were even more stuck up and practiced a fairly rigid gender segregation. (Worth noting that the Spartan practice of women exercising and doing sports was extremely unusual both for the Greeks and the Romans).
Homosexuality was sorta okay for Romans as long as you weren't perceived as a "bottom" and thus lacking masculinity.
How common homosexuality was among the Greeks or how common was the practice of pederastry is also debatable as many contemporary sources strictly condemned sexual relations between men, and they mostly spoke about the virtues of a philosophical love of sorts, thus it's very likely we are massively exaggerating how common the practice was.
Especially when taking into account that both practices were mostly associated with the land owning gentry.
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Why? Teenagers are usually of a similar development and experience level. Thus it is unlikely to have significant power differences involved.
The likelihood of manipulation and even abuse increases with the age gap.
There's a point where someone is old enough that society can no longer coddle them and they have to live with the consequences of their choices, but that is not the age of 12 or 14.
How so? Do you think a 14 and a 15 year old having sexual relations is the same a 12 year old and a 45 year old? When i hooked up with girls in middle school, who were also in middle school it was chill. it wouldnt have been so cool if someones father showed up trying to do the same.
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Honestly, a lot of the people in these threads are just trying to justify their own pedophilia thoughts, so one day, they too can maybe fuck a little kid.
You hit the nail on the head though, someone who is 12-14 in relations with another person of the same age, is fairly normal. Both parties are of the same developmental stages and no one is really in a power position. If everything between the two is consensual, its all good. However, when people are much older, they are able to highly manipulate younger people into doing what they ask, which is a big problem.
So basically today's society, but with incest and child sex allowed? Probably not an improvement. Sounds like a child trafficking nightmare where pimps force children to consent to sex.
I guess I just picture it differently than everyone else. I kinda view it as a utopia in that no one is forced, abused, or coerced into doing something that they do not want to do. Similar to a nudist society where everyone is kind and respect one another, but sex instead.
I tend to think of it as a society where technology has completely eliminated STD's and unwanted pregnancies. In such a society it may be totally normal to walk up to a random person and politely ask if they want to have sex right there on the spot, if he or she refuses, then that is perfectly okay and each person still has mutual respect for one another. Also in such a society, all jealously would be gone. People could have as many sexual partners as they want without worry of their partner(s) getting upset.
And finally, in such a society if a sibling wanted to have sex with another sibling or teenager wanted t have sex with an adult, then they make their decisions completely independently without force, abuse, coercion , or power dynamics. If a sibling or child wants to engage in sexual activity with family member or adult and they make the decision on their own behalf, then okay. And if they decide not to, then that is perfectly fine too and no respect is lost.
Obviously, this is massively idealistic and maybe even impossible because of negative sides of human nature, but I am just hypothesizing of an ideal heaven of a society.
This is not an appropriate thread, given you started off with disregarding age. We are not justifying pedophilia here.
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