No, it seriously puts people in a more suggestible state—it’s better modeled as a drug that as a behavior. Yes, and there’s another bonding behavior that delivers a lot of oxytocin and endorphins, namely sex.
You make a convincing argument in favor of banning sex. :P
Yes, but people go funny in the head too if sexually frustrated (also religiously frustrated, but more people are susceptible to the former). You could have anonymous wordless one-night-stands to get some of the benefits of partnered sex without it influencing the rest of your life, but you still get frustration from sexual tension between specific people.
Alternately we could take a leaf from bonobos and replace “hello” and “thanks” with sex. If everyone is permanently hovering between afterglow and indiscriminate horniness, nobody has a relative advantage in manipulating or lovebombing (heh) others.
However, most people’s solution to the tradeoff between caution (“don’t want to ruin our friendship”, “don’t stick your dick in crazy”, and so on) and getting laid doesn’t put all the weight on the former.
I actually wrote “in favor of celibacy”, but decided it wasn’t strong enough. Why should I let everyone else get brainwashed and selfishly save only myself?
You make a convincing argument in favor of banning sex. :P
Yes, but people go funny in the head too if sexually frustrated (also religiously frustrated, but more people are susceptible to the former). You could have anonymous wordless one-night-stands to get some of the benefits of partnered sex without it influencing the rest of your life, but you still get frustration from sexual tension between specific people.
Alternately we could take a leaf from bonobos and replace “hello” and “thanks” with sex. If everyone is permanently hovering between afterglow and indiscriminate horniness, nobody has a relative advantage in manipulating or lovebombing (heh) others.
However, most people’s solution to the tradeoff between caution (“don’t want to ruin our friendship”, “don’t stick your dick in crazy”, and so on) and getting laid doesn’t put all the weight on the former.
I meant more in weirdtopian terms than immediate ones. Love as wireheading and so on. It was mostly sarcastic, anyway.
Even more convincing in favour of celibacy, which indeed has a long pedigree in many traditions of enlightenment.
I actually wrote “in favor of celibacy”, but decided it wasn’t strong enough. Why should I let everyone else get brainwashed and selfishly save only myself?