PS the painting is 'Signing the register' by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Leighton …
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One subtext of my 'Spent' book: happy, long-term, pronatalist pair-bonds undermine people's need for runaway consumerism & materialism. To prevent this, advertisers, news, & mass media must work overtime to make the sexes dislike & mistrust each other.pic.twitter.com/4QtaG5WfCG
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Is your theory that this is conscious or just selected behavior?
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Good question, and I don't know the answer. Every advertiser knows the best way to sell stuff is to instill feelings of sexual frustration and inadequacy, and presumably they know that happily married people don't feel as frustrated or inadequate....
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Bitcoin does this, too.
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Don’t forget activists
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Strange point for a polyamorist to make. My experience of polys is that they justify it in terms of sexual consumerism, and are very unlikely to have a long-term pronatalist pair bond
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Hah! I’m actually doing a presentation in part inspired by Spent ( for sustainable type peeps). Maybe I’ll bring that up too.
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There's a reason every commercial with a married couple has the husband as an utter buffoon. Well, there's several reasons, but this is one of them.
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