memes in real life #2: like, what the heck would SHE ever have to cry about???

I used that one for a MEME on a similar Post...!! :)

Who is this?

Guys want to handle them, caress them, squeeze them, love them. Girls can hardly wait to grow them. The fixation grows at our mother's breast. I pity bottle babies.

Milk allergies I think. Maybe that's why my girlfriends tend towards the skinny side, despite my stated preference for more statuesque?

Unusual that a baby is allergic to its own mother's milk. I wasn't allergic to it, but I found out in later life that warm milk have me heartburn. As an infant, it's called colic, as an adult, acid reflux.

Nothing turns off a nursing mother like being told her breast milk gives you heartburn.

Actually, back in the 'primitive' '60s, I think since the doctor himself knew my mother was allergic to cow's milk the assumption was that I would be allergic to milk. I don't think I ever got any breast milk. Formula baby. I survived. Nowadays the technology and knowledge of the subject is better. Maybe that has something to do with why I can drink (Alcohol) like a fish. ;)

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In order to simulate the appearance of a constant state of estrus so as to entice a male partner to stay around and help raise the offspring, the buttocks of human females evolved to look permanently pronounced in the way the posterior of primates like chimps and baboons becomes swollen during heat.

Likewise, the breasts also grew larger than necassary (when lactating, a flat-chested woman can feed two infants) to mimic the butt, and female areola developed to appear like the labia, and so did the lips on the mouth.
Curiously, we see this pattern on male baboons, the mandrill being the most spectacular with it's bare areas of cobalt blue and crimson on it's hind quarters, chest, and face,,,

One of the things that we should note is that the human female is technically receptive to sex year round. I think that "don't touch her during ragtime" is more cultural that biological. Some guys like it that way.

For further info on why women, and men, are the way they are, read up on our closest primate relative, the Bonobo chimpanzee. They do love their orgies.

An almost unique quality that, shared only by orangutans and bonobos.

Bonobos make me wonder if they are evolving in sexual directions far weirder than humans, orrrrrrrrrrr if peoples were more like them millions of years ago, and abherrant behavior among some is the remants of that behavior ages ago rather than merely psychologically warped... Just a thought,,,

I think it's a left over from the origin if the species. From what I've read, the only tabu they have regarding sex is that boys shouldn't be literal mf'ers. Aside from that, anything seems to be fair game. The males tolerate the young because there's always the off chance one of them could be their kid. By the same token, a female could have every male in the tribe before she gets pregnant.

I think our hang ups regarding reproduction are more man made than natural. At least one group of Pacific natives make sure their young know about sex in a hands on manner. The women teach the young boys while the men teach the young girls. It's a part of their culture, although here they'd be strung up by their whatevers as pedophiles.

I don't think we will ever be able to change it, which is a pity. Because of our societal rules, many young people grow up psychologically damaged and either inflict their "sin" on others or on society at large.

Same apparent sole prohibition I heard about them.

With those islanders, was it Fiji or something? Heard about it decades ago in an Anthro class, but just that teenage males were instructed by an aunt. Nothing about the other way around tho.

I disagree that it's more cultural mores than instinctive tho. With a few rare exceptions, we see similar patterns throughout the world prior to the spread of Western religion/culture, suggesting that such is normal. Emotional responses are also bolster this view.

It's interesting how this all comes about. After all, we all came out of Africa, albeit at different times. Things our culture today have developed as mores have changed drastically over the last few millennia. I've not heard of harems like Solomon had, although Brigham Young had his hands full. Incest. Think of King Mausolus and his bride, who was also his sister.

People today are horrified at hearing about the child brides in Muslim nations, but if you look through records of old Europe, you'll see that the first stages of puberty in a girl, which one author wrote half-jokingly, coincided with her first pubic hair, was a readiness for marriage. Those changes can be as early as 10. The men that married these young girls weren't considered pervs. They had spent much of their teen years building a life to take a bride, so this 10 year old marrying an old man more than twice her age was more common than you think. A married woman in the 1400s would barely be high school age. That holdover could be seen through Appalachia, especially in the first half of the last century. I recall one girl from Tennessee in my Freshman art class that, while only 14, was dropping out to get married. It was an arranged marriage, no less. They may have had to throw puffed rice at the wedding to make it legal, but she got hitched and I never saw,her again.

Speaking of Appalachia, besides marrying young, the close kin courtships were common also due to the remoteness of the mountain region. Unless a boy went to the city, he ended up marrying a cousin more often than not. It got worse if the parents of one were siblings to the parents of the other. Double first cousins.

I love it. You guys turn my meme meant for ogling First World Problems woman into a discussion of human origins and values. :)

I'd keep the discussion of child brides away from many of the wingnuts on this site. They tend to get loony when any comparison is made between religions. :P

My experience with them is the TL:DR attitude. I've got facts on my side, and the more I put out, the angrier they get.

Right now, I'm being trolled by a 14 year old. Poor baby

Marrying of cousins, arranged marriages, women and children as chattel - people forget that they weren't unknown in the West for a big chunk of the 20th Century.
Hats were worn by men till Kennedy along and didn't, woolen bathing suits covering the whole body, limited rights based race & religion, these things and more were the way things were within the memory of many among us still,,,

We weren't as entirely different from Islamic countries as we like to think.

That is the push, to take it back to the 50s, when "things were better". Better for the White, Christian male. Good jobs were available, but if you strayed from the path, you were ostracized.

The 20th century came in where birth control consisted of waiting until you were married. Today, the same, self-righteous people, are still fighting it. The powers that be want us bred like livestock. This way, when slavery is brought back out in the open and legal, they have plenty.