Think You’re Not Trying to Get Laid? Think Again
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/07/18
Rick Rosner is a friend. We discuss a broad range of topics. One of interest is evolutionary theory and the implications for mating behavior. We aren’t experts but are having a fun conversation between friends, and so decided to conduct some recorded sessions about this in a series on mating strategies. Here is session four, just for you.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In the past, we talked about the differentiation between different partnership options, or not, in developing countries as technology causes a massive change in social and cultural life, and in political orientation.
What we’re talking about now is sub-cultures that come somewhat out of 70s and 80s, and some new ones with regards to technology, that amounts to fringy outcroppings of what might come in different forms.
I mean, an alteration in the way people partner or don’t, so I mean a greater variety in partnership expression.
So, guy culture, anti-social culture, or, the one that you were describing, the not quite anti-social but non-social bro culture – which may include little contact with women or society and not getting higher education and just dropping out, in addition to variations on that theme via becoming hooked on some form of electronic stimulation rather than engaging in moderate use.
What does this mean with regards to some of our older conversations about the broadening of the landscape? For example, we see much more acceptance of LGBTQ+, which opens the landscape for people to feel more comfortable in their own skin, and to partner-up in the ways that they would have otherwise if not for oppression or repression from society: covert and direct.
Rick Rosner: There are several things going on. Maybe we can find the main themes. For me, the main theme is that I grew up in the 1970s, which was a particularly sexual time. It was also a time that thought—the sexual attitudes of the 60s and 70s, during that time, were thought of being essential and more natural than the attitudes of any other time that came before.
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