What if humans had a mating season?

[Saxnot]

so, just out of interest, what if humans had a mating season?

Meaning humans would have no sex drive or libido except for 3 months during the spring. We'd still be social and live in mixed male-female groups, but we would only feel active sexual desire during that time. This would be purely biological, what society would be like is entirely open.

how do you think it would change society and the world as we know it today?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I love these forums...

Advertisements and entertainment would be totally different for one thing. I think we'd basically become the Vulcans:

"You want me to buy a product solely because there is a naked female on the box? How illogical!"

 

[Casual Shinji]

Aw man, I wish.

Then I could use my favourite game quote ever: "It was mating season, how could I've known she was your sister?"

 

[Doclector]

War. All out, yearly war. Possibly with coverage by sky sports, and catering by thorntons.

 

[SckizoBoy]

so, just out of interest, what if humans had a mating season?

Meaning humans would have no sex drive or libido except for 3 months during the spring. We'd still be social and live in mixed male-female groups, but we would only feel active sexual desire during that time. This would be purely biological, what society would be like is entirely open.

how do you think it would change society and the world as we know it today?

Logically speaking the 'season' would be in autumn. Pregnancy starts in winter while everyone's less active (on the whole) and the kids are born in summer. Provides the best chances of a healthy birth and least risk to the mother. *shrug*

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Sorry, that's all I had to say on it... -_-

 

[Calibanbutcher]

But we do have a mating season. It's called adulthood.
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Seriously: It would change a lot of things, especially entertainment and advertisments.

 

[Vault101]

well I'm pretty sure we do go through our "horny and ready to go" months and our "meh" months....out bodies work in a cycle

 

[Simalacrum]

Well, I'm pretty sure I'd be laid about as much as I am now!

That is to say, none at all.

 

[Stu35]

What if humans had a mating season?

We do. It's called "Summer".

It's when newly matured Humans gather on beaches with fermented beverages and copulate like the filthy beasts we all really are...

For example, I'm a metalhead, I therfore hate everything about Ibiza, the club capital of Europe (or it was when I was a lad), that did not stop me going there for 3 weeks when I was 17 for the sole purpose of getting absolutely smashed of my tits and shagging everything I could get my greasy hands on.

 

[Araqiel]

Interesting idea, I wonder what would change. Would we still focus so much no sex in society or just when t'is the season. Would it even still be done just for pleasure, would nightclubs only be opened for the mating season or the entire year, makes me wonder...

 

[A Satanic Panda]

I can see the price of latex products spike around that time. I'd also imagine most holidays would be around that time of year too. Thanks-giving, Christmas, Hanukkah, US election season, all of them would be unimaginable without having a lot of sex. I wish.

 

[Innegativeion]

Aw man, I wish.

Then I could use my favourite game quote ever: "It was mating season, how could I've known she was your sister?"

Favorite Ratchet and clank game. Classy.

So, uh, yeah. Society would definitely be different. People in general would be less flippin' obsessed with sex, and I'm not talking about sexually active people.

We'd only have to listen to religious authorities, advertisers, and the like hound us about sex for 3 months out of the year. Think of it; it'd be an extended sec-themed christmas.

 

[IamQ]

Tsk, what would the porn industry do? Release movies only during that time? xD

Probably, and since it would only be for three months, I don't think porn would be looked down at the same way it is now. Maybe we would see porn ads on the streets and on tv during those months.

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Oh god, Time Square!

 

[Macgyvercas]

Well, I'm pretty sure I'd be laid about as much as I am now!

That is to say, none at all.

HEY! I remember you! Haven't seen you in awhile! What the hell have you been up to man?

OT: Probably the only thing that would happen is that advertisers would sexualize their ads in the mating season only.

 

[Palademon]

First of May, first of may. Outdoor fucking starts today.


Instantly what I thought of.

Birthdays would end up being very boring, since they'd all be close together.

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Gun ownership would experience a shift to gun rental, with shotguns being rented for 3 month periods to every father of teenage girls.

Seriously, I don't think that there would be that much of decrease in sexy ads; people would still want to get some things to appear sexy to better improve their chances during mating season.

I'd be worried about how out-of-control things would get during mating season. Plenty of animals go batshit and try to hump everything that moves, and humans would probably be the same once the hormones start pumping. Our laws about what constitutes sexual assault would have to be changed and more strictly enforced to keep some semblance of order.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I like this idea, how do we go about implementing it? :3