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[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Bonobo chimps use sex to calm the males down, which allows them to live so fucking peacefully among other chimp tribes. If only contemporary society was so open to such a concept.

[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Bonobo

Great DJ.

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's...not going to work on humans. Maybe world leaders, but not the masses.

[โ€“] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Think a little less directly, meeting people's needs vs bombing them. In the US, ~6 hours of "defense" spending could put everyone in the country on food stamps for a year

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That works, somewhat.

But if you tell a person "I'm going to fuck you, calm down" they just call the police, or deck you in the face.

[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile the European countries with legalized brothels/prostitution dont spend enormous amounts of money on their own defense budget and are chill af to visit as a tourist.

[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

The correlation not causation thing...

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -1 points 3 months ago

Fine. Ngl, sex work is illegal here, period. Probably for the best.

[โ€“] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, we have 5000 plus years of culture engrained into us about male control of women, so women using sex to pacify males, probably wonโ€™t work.