I think they'd be the only people NOT fucking like crazy. Mating season for everyone else is the porn stars holiday.Aylaine said:
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What if humans had a mating season?
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And I'm sorry but;
PEOPLE REMEMBER ME?! O.OMacgyvercas said:
Also, hello~ XD how've you been doing? I remember you too
I've been busy? picking up all sorts of hobbies, taking juggling to obsessive levels, moving to Japan? you know, regular stuff.
I don't think we'd be where we are today if that were the case.
9 months of relative peace followed by 3 months of sex-driven madness.
We'd basically destroy ourselves on a yearly basis.
Not the best way to go about the whole "technological/cultural evolution" thing.
9 months of relative peace followed by 3 months of sex-driven madness.
We'd basically destroy ourselves on a yearly basis.
Not the best way to go about the whole "technological/cultural evolution" thing.
Wait, so could you still have sex in the other 9 months, but only reproduce in the 3 months? Or would you only have sex in those three months? I could live with the former, but I think the latter would be very damaging to society. Lots of rape and stuff like that.
I thought spring break was already the official mating season? STDs and accidental pregnancies for all
Society as we know it just wouldn't exist. 99% of our art/literature/culture is about sex, or was created by the sexually frustrated, or was made with the view to impressing someone or gaining money in order to impress someone so that at a later date they might have sex with you (The first lecture of my English Literature degree was all about how every book ever is about sex. Quite an interesting lecture that one...). I highly doubt whether religion would exist in its current forms. Advertising certainly wouldn't. What would happen to music?
I can't say whether it would be better or worse, but I can't imagine anything else having such a fundamental change to our culture.
I can't say whether it would be better or worse, but I can't imagine anything else having such a fundamental change to our culture.
As far as I understand, males still have libido out of mating season. It is simply the animal in heat's scent that tells them that it is ok.
It isn't like the male matches season, but rather they take advantage of it.
So i don't think too much would change except for married men having to fap more.
It isn't like the male matches season, but rather they take advantage of it.
So i don't think too much would change except for married men having to fap more.
Technically some males animal species compete against each other in order to get a mate therefore some of us are screw (not literally, more like forever alone) especially if it the compitition is on the physical level (we are screw even more).
However I suppose if the competition were to change like I don't know, like compete on how to fix a computer or playing a game that somehow woo the girls than it's all good. Even then I can guess cheating will be involve alot unless mating season is also about honour.
However I suppose if the competition were to change like I don't know, like compete on how to fix a computer or playing a game that somehow woo the girls than it's all good. Even then I can guess cheating will be involve alot unless mating season is also about honour.
Of course I remember the escapist's resident juggler!Simalacrum said:PEOPLE REMEMBER ME?! O.OMacgyvercas said:
Also, hello~ XD how've you been doing? I remember you too
I've been busy? picking up all sorts of hobbies, taking juggling to obsessive levels, moving to Japan? you know, regular stuff.
And moving to Japan? Nice. What's taking you over there?
I don't get ninja'd very often... but when I do... hrmf.Palademon said:
Me thinks it this would change the economy rapidly... probably for the worse. I imagine dudes with high sex drives make up a large portion of the economy.
I'm under the impression that we already have several, technically speaking. You know - Happy Hour, the Five-to-Nine shift after hours, Friday nights, Saturdays...Saxnot said:
"Mating season" is all the time in our case, which is why there's seven billion of us.
Seriously, I doubt that would do us any good. Most animals who have a heat period have their usual cycle seriously upended. Can you imagine having to call sick for what, two weeks, because you're biologically obligated to spend all of your time ogling around for a partner? Something tells me the created relationships would be a lot less significant. I don't see how a monogamous culture could be sustainable if Humanity had to obey some sort of Pon Farr.
Not that monogamy is the exclusive in terms of moral righteousness - it's just the best way we've found to let our Special Someones know they matter on the long term.
We'd already be flying space ships to other planets >_>.
Sex is remarkably good at slowing down everything since it is so powerful and alluring.
Sex is remarkably good at slowing down everything since it is so powerful and alluring.
It would suck for guys, since the majority of mating seasons that I know of in biology are pretty much entirely on the part of the female: The male has the same sex-drive year-round, or only responds in response to the female's scent. The latter would be tolerable, but the former would really suck for straight dudes, unless the time of year was different for each female and didn't happen, say, ALL during the spring or something.
Here is the #1 thing to consider:
As is, pregnancy is 80% (or more) a mistake.
Very few people actually mean to get pregnant, so if we had a mating season it would mean people would aim for the best possible suitors at that point in their life and fuck everything else on the off-seasons. People aren't going to stop having sex, but it would pretty much eliminate accidental pregnancy, and force ugly people into extinction.
There would likely be two kinds of relationships; the off-season love, and the person you end up leaving them for (no matter how brief). Shit would be messed up, and people would start rationalizing that. "Oh, well I have to look out for my own personal interests. It is mating season after all... I'll be back in the fall after getting knocked up (or knocking others up)". The concept of 'leagues' will fuck us all over, as we constantly try to trade-up to something better once a year, and the people at the bottom will likely deal with that.
As is, pregnancy is 80% (or more) a mistake.
Very few people actually mean to get pregnant, so if we had a mating season it would mean people would aim for the best possible suitors at that point in their life and fuck everything else on the off-seasons. People aren't going to stop having sex, but it would pretty much eliminate accidental pregnancy, and force ugly people into extinction.
There would likely be two kinds of relationships; the off-season love, and the person you end up leaving them for (no matter how brief). Shit would be messed up, and people would start rationalizing that. "Oh, well I have to look out for my own personal interests. It is mating season after all... I'll be back in the fall after getting knocked up (or knocking others up)". The concept of 'leagues' will fuck us all over, as we constantly try to trade-up to something better once a year, and the people at the bottom will likely deal with that.