RE: Memes and sexuality

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 15:34:01 BST

  • Next message: Lise Maring: "Re: Memes and sexuality"

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA02001 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:36:08 +0100
    Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745912@inchna.stir.ac.uk>
    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Subject: RE: Memes and sexuality
    Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:34:01 +0100
    X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
    Content-Type: text/plain
    Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
    Precedence: bulk
    Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    

    Very incisive point, Lise, thanks.

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Lise Maring
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 3:04 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Memes and sexuality
    >
    > Hmmm. Touchy subject here. Possibly it needs to be remembered that for
    > most 'animals' sexual activity is seasonal whereas for humans (and
    > possibly
    > most primates?) it is....well, not necessarily so. I have a feeling we
    > wouldn't get much else done if we didn't repress our 'natural drives' to
    > some extent and had males constantly fighting over females? Very
    > disruptive in your average business office.
    >
    > Just a quiet, in-the-background member of the list who couldn't resist
    > putting in her two cents worth on this one,
    >
    > Lise
    >
    > "Lawrence H. de Bivort" wrote:
    >
    > > I wonder if the repression of overt sexuality among humans comes to a
    > > certain extent from a desire to put some distance between ourselves and
    > > 'mere' animals, to prove to ourselves that we are not 'animals.'
    > >
    > > - Lawrence
    > >
    > > |---------------------------------------------|
    > > | ESI |
    > > | Evolutionary Services Institute |
    > > | "Crafting opportunities for a better world" |
    > > | 5504 Scioto Road, Bethesda, MD 20816, USA |
    > > | (301) 320-3941 |
    > > |---------------------------------------------|
    > >
    > > ===============================================================
    > > This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    > > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    > > For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    > > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >
    >
    > ===============================================================
    > This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    > For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jul 11 2000 - 15:36:52 BST