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glass_icarusWHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
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ogi_ogas
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? There are so many problems with this statement, and I am way too pissed to unpack them all, but FIRST THINGS GODDAMNED FIRST.
STOP. WITH. THE RHESUS MONKEYS.
If you are more willing, "Dr." Ogas, to read up on primate behavior than to actually listen to what human women ARE FUCKING SAYING TO YOU, then that tells me a hell of a lot about what you think of me, of the people you are trying to survey, of >50% of the world population that just so happens to include your hypothetical and/or future wife/sister/daughter/cousin/mother/grandmother. And do you know what? This does not make you a rhesus monkey; it merely makes you a SAD AND SORRY AND HOPELESSLY IGNORANT AND PRIVILEGED EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING.
Well, we need to start out with some clues. What happens when there's tumors or damage in the subcortical regions? If you remove the amygdala you get Kluver-Bucy syndrome, which makes a person want to have sex with everything. (Which also, incidentally, an indirect clue about culture--either culture is located in the amygdala, or there's some non-cultural influence which prevents us from having sex with everything.) What regions light up in a brain scan when a person thinks about their lover? What happens when you record neural activity in the subcortical region in monkeys during copulation? Primate behavior is also revealing. Male rhesus monkeys will pay juice to look at pictures of female perinea (the scientific term for “bright pink monkey butt”). That sounds like human males. But wait a minute--female rhesus monkeys will pay juice to look at pictures of male penises. That doesn't sound like human females at all. The number of women who pay to look at porn is so close to zero that whenever CCBill (the largest billing system for adult sites) sees a female name on a credit card payment, it gets flagged. Usually a female name means a guy has borrowed his mom's, sister's, or girlfriend's credit card, and most of the the women will refuse to pay, so CCBill can't let any female payment go through unexamined. So now we have one clue: something is different in the human female sex circuits than in the monkey female sex circuits. We can now look at the relevant neural structures for clues for this difference.
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ogi_ogasSeriously? SERIOUSLY? There are so many problems with this statement, and I am way too pissed to unpack them all, but FIRST THINGS GODDAMNED FIRST.
STOP. WITH. THE RHESUS MONKEYS.
If you are more willing, "Dr." Ogas, to read up on primate behavior than to actually listen to what human women ARE FUCKING SAYING TO YOU, then that tells me a hell of a lot about what you think of me, of the people you are trying to survey, of >50% of the world population that just so happens to include your hypothetical and/or future wife/sister/daughter/cousin/mother/grandmother. And do you know what? This does not make you a rhesus monkey; it merely makes you a SAD AND SORRY AND HOPELESSLY IGNORANT AND PRIVILEGED EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING.
