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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Memes and sexuality]
> Is there a relationship between technologically (or militarily) advanced
> nations and degrees of sexual taboos?
<< Hm, difficult to pin point, but in the case of the technologically
advanced
nations I would say, yes_in the context that those technologies (can) show
more sex perversities (like video, cd-rom, internet,...)
Strange though, that the first thing a new technology brings about is how to
constrain its possible misuse...!?
There is a saying, the more intellectual you are, how lesser bodily active
you become. It would be logical to initiate taboos in order to speed up
technologies or military advances. The more you are active due to the
technology (or due to military activities) the lesser you have time to have
sex. Technological or military meme-plexes would take advantage of this,
and would constrain sex with surroundin ' it with taboos.
Maybe, somebody on this list would know the answer to the following,
_Is there evidence that since the Industrial Revolution our sex-drive
is dimisnishing !?
Just a thought which popped up, in general this list has not many ladies
as members, I did get post from, I think 3 or 4.
Is memetics a male thing !?
Regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are)
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