Has bestiality always been historically so taboo? Why? It doesn't result in pregnancy; did it result in diseases? Why did humans evolve to get so repulsed from touching genitals with other species?
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
Hypothesis: many of the sexual prohibitions in the Torah make sense if you view the purpose as increasing fertility, in a time when more children = more labor and larger fighting force.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
1. The story of Onan, punished for masturbation, is about a man required by law to marry her brother’s widow (so she can still have children & financial support) who spitefully refuses to have babies with her & masturbates instead.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
2. Many prohibited sexual acts (male homosexuality, bestiality, masturbation) do not produce offspring.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
3. There are of course lots of reasons that people might make rules against sexual promiscuity but one that we easily forget is that, before antibiotics, STDs routinely made women sterile.
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4. Forbidding having sex around a woman’s menstrual period has the effect of increasing fertility.
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