Comments on: Is Male Sexuality to Blame For War?

By: Ocean

Ocean — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:38:17 +0000

Firstly, the Telegraph is a dreadful paper. Every article in it is total rubbish. Don’t encourage them. However, surely the link between testosterone and aggression is totally proven? Sure, war is complex. Queen Boudicca was pretty good at killing Romans. And evolutionary psychology may risk oversimplifying things, but to be honest football thugs and war hungry politicians (or even any politicians) are primal beings being driven by instinct not intellect. Alan Moore’s book ’25,000 years of erotic freedom’ gives historic examples of how civilised society has countered this, as the title says.

By: Dav

Dav — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:11:45 +0000

You might be interested in a new book called Debt: the First 5000 years. It is an economics book but written by an anthropologist. From an anthropological view money seems to come from a history of violence. Slavery, rape …. honor and degradation. The chapter I am on right now is tying coinage (the invention of coins) directly to war in a self-perpetuating triangle of war, slaves and mints.

I think parts of this article may be drawing simplified conclusions from the same sources, but this book makes dramatically goes much deeper.

By: Dr.C

Dr.C — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:31:04 +0000

My take-away from reading through the source article was this: “if you use a methodology that reduces everything to being about procreating, then everything is about procreating.”

Ah, EvPsych. Don’t go changing.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:41:22 +0000

Oh hell yeah. You got my respect from this article.

I’m tired of blatant sexism against males, but it’s never challenged because it’s a “feminist perspective.” If there isn’t a clear logical argument with specifics to support the claim, then the media piece fails…. regardless of the position.

Also, as a man…. with a penis… and a brain… I can confidently say: some of us have the mental capacity to be far complex and contemplative than we are given credit for.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:28:34 +0000

You got this one right Violet. So why do we keep electing assholes?

By: Daemon

Daemon — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:39:27 +0000

I am reminded of the time a bunch of women stopped the local armed conflicts by refusing to have sex until it got peaceful. And I don’t mean the ancient greek play…
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-19/world/philippines.sex.strike_1_village-strike-drug-trafficking?_s=PM:WORLD

By: t

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:07:18 +0000

Well, I’ll contribute that if we spent more focusing on sex, there would definitely be less war making.
Love these sort of studies for a good laugh.