Sometimes I wonder, how did people know that the penis and the vagina should be covered up with clothing? How did people figure out that THESE were the body parts that shouldn't be seen by other people?
Sometimes I wonder, how did people know that the penis and the vagina should be covered up with clothing? How did people figure out that THESE were the body parts that shouldn't be seen by other people? Why didn't they pick the elbow, or maybe the chin? What happened? Everyone was just walking around naked and one day some guy goes up to his friend, "Hmmm, ya know something Jim, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately... I don't think you should be seeing my penis." The other guy was like "Hmm, ya think?" "Yeah, I just got this feeling that maybe my penis shouldn't be seen by other people."…
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26 - duane
Purple Tigress says, "... but I sadly find you adhere to the Freudian stream of thought that women fear or envy the penis."
Well, PT, I doubt that Freud had any inkling of prehistoric anatomy when he formulated his own theories concerning the sexual underpinnings of contemporary psychoses. You may feel that Freud's model was flawed because penile fear presupposes some kind of neurological hardwiring over which women have no control. It's debatable, of course, and I wouldn't care to choose sides on that issue. For Homo erectus women, on the other hand, a clear and present danger was in their midst. They had every reason to fear the male organ. Besides that, the preoccupations of the typical caveperson, as they went about their day-to-day life, had to do almost exclusively with food, defense, territory, reproduction, and dating. The range of experience was not extensive enough to engender mental problems of the modern variety. If Freud could be dropped into the year 25,000 BC, he would find little cause to diagnose paranoia, for example. Homo erectus lived in a constant state of hyperawareness -- that or die; by getting your head bashed in by a neighboring clan, or having your arm torn off by a four-legged predator. The females (without getting too graphic) had the additional fear of being skewered by Uga and his buddies after a successful hunt. Finally, the neocortex, the seat of psychosis, was less developed than ours. Therefore, feminist spins of Freud's work are entirely irrelevant.
27 - KuDD45
Wow tigress very intellectual indeed. Sexism, yeah that has to be the cause for people disliking your arrogant attitude, really rational is the only way to describe your writing. Get off yer high horse you whiny excuse filled sad lonely women, i thought you were a man and therefore sexism was the farthest thing from my mind. And the only reason i didn't comment on the others posts was they weren't sounding like overbearing, high-and-mighty, ego-filled know-it-alls.
Why so bitter towards men? can't get one? want women? Well tigress, get a girlfriend or some poor sap to accept your money for some dick cause you are in desperate need of some.
P.S. Please continue to respond, i like dangling you on my strings.
28 - kudd45
Duane,
you are so full of shit, but funny shit so thats cool. If this non-sense is true then i apologize, but im quite certain it's not. If it is not true, then you are a truly gifted bullshitter and i salute you.
Keep this stuff up, people will buy into it, which makes it all the more funny.
29 - boomcrashbaby
For the record, I certainly didn't buy into it. Was goading him into elaborating.
30 - Sibboleth
It's a well known fact that in prehistoric times the most common method of asserting social dominance was through a complex ritual known as "sword fighting," a strictly modern nomenclature because they didn't in fact have swords back then.
A typical scenario would run like this: a male spots another male sporting a huge erection, a signal that the male feels dominant and is willing to assert his authority. In the resulting melee both males wielding their phalli like baseball bats and would batter each other until one was bludgeoned to death. Intrasexual selection obviously favored males with large penises to the point that the leading cause of death amongst young males was being beaten to death by oversized penises and amongst women vaginal hemorrhage and suicide.
The situation was spiraling wildly out of control and in the famous Council of Zog meeting circa 2500 BC, the solution to cover up the penis was revealed. Women were also required to wear clothes because, damnit taking them off is half the fun!
As for penis size...you all know you aren't half the men your ancestors were. They could have clubbed you to death and made a hat out of your skull.
31 - Sibboleth
It's a well known fact that in prehistoric times the most common method of asserting social dominance was through a complex ritual known as "sword fighting," a strictly modern nomenclature because they didn't in fact have swords back then.
A typical scenario would run like this: a male spots another male sporting a huge erection, a signal that the male feels dominant and is willing to assert his authority. In the resulting melee both males wielding their phalli like baseball bats and would batter each other until one was bludgeoned to death. Intrasexual selection obviously favored males with large penises to the point that the leading cause of death amongst young males was being beaten to death by oversized penises and amongst women vaginal hemorrhage and suicide.
The situation was spiraling wildly out of control and in the famous Council of Zog meeting circa 2500 BC, the solution to cover up the penis was revealed. Women were also required to wear clothes because, damnit taking them off is half the fun!
As for penis size...you all know you aren't half the men your ancestors were. They could have clubbed you to death and made a hat out of your skull.
32 - Duane
Sibboleth, good to get some input from another anthropologically well-versed commenter. Your hypothesis concerning the etymology of the term "sword fighting" is not without merit, although your interposition of the "Council of Zog," which is, sadly, wholly fictitious, does tend to cast some doubt on your credibility.
The problem with your thesis, however, concerns time frames. Sword fighting had its origins in the Bronze Age. There is very little archaeological evidence that the Bronze Age began anywhere on Earth before about 4500 BC, by which time the male organ bore but a faint glimmer of its former glory. And while there was a theory prevalent in the mid 20th Century that the practice of sword fighting was nothing but a natural extension (so to speak) of the penile dueling you describe, this notion has since been discarded on the grounds that approximately 15,000 years had lapsed from the true era of the caveman to the Bronze Age, by which time women no longer feared the male appendage. In other words, the Age of Fashion and the Age of Dating (described above), both of which revolved primarily around women's justifiable fear of the male's ponderous predatory penis, had long since passed into history.
33 - RJ Elliott
Kudd:
Why would you think "PURPLE TIGRESS" was a MALE? ;-]
34 - RJ Elliott
Duane is one funny dude, I agree! :)
35 - RJ Elliott
Duane is one funny dude, I agree! :)
36 - RJ Elliott
Lemme get this straight:
Prehistoric human males had massive wangs, despite being much shorter than modern man? Yet penis-size among modern-man is largely a factor of height?
If male genitals are shrinking as we evolve, will the day come when (thousands of years from now) men are too tiny to even successfully penetrate?
Were prehistoric women "deeper" than today's women?
(These are all serious questions, though I hardly expect a serious reply...) ;-]
37 - Duane
Yes, R.J., you've touched upon one of the follies of Mother Nature. The vaginal cavities of prehistoric chicks were, in fact, rather small, even by today's standards. It is believed that the size of the birth canal is dictated primarily by the head size of the fetus. Since specimens such as Australopithecus ramidus (with an IQ that barely rivals a modern-day squid) had pea brains, hence small skulls, women had no need for cavernous vaginal tracts. But as one proceeds through the hominid timeline, the cranial capacity, hence the vagina, grows. Not to say that childbirth is painless -- the evolution continues! Cranial size plateaued with the Cro Magnon, the first among Homo sapiens sapiens (uh, that's us). But the vagina has continued to grow, predestined by Evolution to make childbirth a relatively painless exercise. Sadly, whereas the hominid penis started off as grotesquely overproportioned, it is, on average, shrinking, generation by generation. We can only speculate what these two opposing trends signify for the future of human sexuality, not to mention the sex toy industry.
Side note: it has been hypothesized that the schlongs of hominid ancestors (3 million years BC and earlier) were so massive, that it was uncomfortable to stand upright, owing to the extra strain it placed on the back. Were it not for this, Man would have begun walking upright --- which freed up his hands, allowing the develoment of dexterous use of the fingers, the opposable thumb, toolmaking, obsolescence of the pejorative term "knuckledragger," etc. --- millions of years earlier.
38 - boomcrashbaby
We can only speculate what these two opposing trends signify for the future of human sexuality, not to mention the sex toy industry.
There's a book out, written by an Oxford Professor that believes that the Y chromosome will be extinct in 125,000 years. He believes women will evolve into either merging their eggs or a woman may be able to fertilize her own egg.
(Who would have ever thought that going clubbin on the weekends originated in the Bronze Age?)
39 - Duane
Thanks for the link BoomCB. Sykes puts forth an interesting idea, but methinks he's swayed a bit too much by his preoccupation with the view that all bad things in the world are the fault of male humans. He seems to revel in the possibility that the male will become obsolete, and that a peaceful. loving, nurturing, caring (excuse me while I go throw up ....) ... OK, back... uh ... world will come about. What could offset his proposed mechanism, by which women will win the "genetic war," is natural selection in favor of men with more robust Y chromosomes and higher sperm counts. On the sociological side, while men are responsible for most of the evil in the world, they are also responsible for most of the good -- historically speaking, that is. I'm not a male chauvinist, but dems da facts, jack.
40 - jhonno
i think while we were evolving from monkeys our tails went in the front and became the great penis
41 - Bob A. Booey
This is some pretty funny satire of anthropology in the comments here.
Well done, kids.
That is all.
42 - Jono McHardy
I don't know if anyone still reads this, but this is some entirely bizarre shit. Oh yeah purple tigress I'll probably be a disappointment to you but hey, take a chance.
43 - Rodney Welch
I just hope the author never pursued that comedian idea.
44 - william from oklahoma
have any of you ever ran thru the woods without clothes on? or tall grass..try it and your question will be answered as to the developement of clothing
45 - J.J.
I think humans decided to cover up those parts simply because they are the parts in which we pee out of. So one person was like, "Hey, I really don't want to see you pee." Make sense?
46 - HANNAH
I LOVE MY PUSSY AND URS!!!!!!!!!!
BY HANNA PURSER
47 - Stephen McQueen
lol