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Gonna need to be a full on poly commune at this rate if prices keep going up.

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[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 141 points 6 months ago

We're getting closer and closer to wrapping back around and just having community. Just remove the sex aspect and boom you got a community going.

[-] match@pawb.social 108 points 6 months ago

you ever wonder if communities typically did just have a bunch of sex but revisionism happened

[-] uriel238 93 points 6 months ago

For most of the existence of human species (according to the scholarly consensus of anthropologists) we existed in bands of adults who would intermingle freely. Adolescent men would raid nearby tribes and kidnap their young women, which is the means by which genes were exchanged between tribes.

All the monogamy and licensing happened after agriculture and the great leap forward once tribes became big enough that infectious diseases were no longer contained through pure isolation. We see the misogynistic trends rise in late Hellenic periods and then Christianity cranked it up to eleven, so now we imagine even our migrant hunter-gatherer ancestors paired off.

As a note, during the middle ages, it was super important among aristocracy to assure ladies-in-waiting were virginal before they were wed, and then used purely as heir machines, but the serf class routinely banged like bunnies in springtime. And while frowned upon by the more piety-minded clergy, it was generally ignored because a) Child mortality was something awful and every kid that ever reached majority was to be celebrated, and b) The labor shortage was extreme everywhere. There was always way too much stuff to be done, and so every pair of hands was welcome, even when they were attacked to an idiot, a malformed hunchback, a ne'er-do-well or the bastard progeny of a mixed coupling.

Curiously, as we see in the birth of Mordred, pre-Christian European traditions included suspending adultery limitations during holidays, which happened at least once a season, sometimes twice. So even in societies where monogamy was the norm, there was a defined space for getting a bit on the side. (Useful when your partner was infertile.)

So yeah. Right in one.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago

Thank you, for being the expert when we needed one.

[-] uriel238 9 points 6 months ago

You're welcome to what I know, though I'm just someone who's read more than a little pop-science. I'm not accredited or anything.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Adolescent men would raid nearby tribes and kidnap their young women, which is the means by which genes were exchanged between tribes.

We see the misogynistic trends rise in late Hellenic periods

hmmm

[-] uriel238 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah, adolescence is weird, and some of this is guessing based on other primates. Gorillas, for example, evict familiar adolescent females shortly after puberty while welcoming strange adolescent females, which informs how we model the behavior of pre-agriculture migratory human tribes.

(I should add we don't presume that it was the same everywhere either, so it's quite possible that some prehistorical humans had different means of managing their teens than sending the boys off to wage war and letting the girls get kidnapped in kind by raiders. Once we go that far back, we have to rely on archeological data, which is very selective in the tales it tells.)

So then, there are some powerful goddesses in early Hellenism, for instance, Aphrodite (commonly a goddess of love and beauty), evolved from Astarte (Lover, Healer, Hunter, Warrior) who developed from Ishtar. In fact, when Aphrodite emerged from the sea foam on Kytherian beaches, Phoenician traders were coming to the Kytherian harbors, not only bringing goods and their own goddess, Astarte but also the modern Greek alphabet (before which the locals were using Linear B). So we have a path from Ishtar and this major poly-faceted goddess being reduced to a love goddess, who is then married to Hephaestus (the crippled forge) to put her in her place.

Also curious to me is Dread Persephone who ruled the dead and the underworld long before Hades appears on scene. (Poseidon was the Olympian in Chief, and we see part of his gig in creating biodiversity, not just all the creatures of the sea, but also those of the land). Zeus and Hades were added late in the game, and the stories we have of Persephone, specifically of the abduction of Persephone from Demeter and the thing with the six pomegranate seeds comes from a single poem. Even then, winter comes not because Persephone is gone, but because Demeter is sad about it, and stops doing her job. So Persephone's role is to be mom's co-dependent emotional-support assistant during springtime, and go back to attending the dead.

So here we have two examples of powerful goddesses that influenced the Hellenic people and culture who are then shoved backstage with the addition of Zeus and Hades.

There's a similar event that I remember from Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson regarding Asherah, the consort to Adonai / Elohim / Yahweh. Asherah was always the ambitious one between the two, and the Canaanite temples to her were bigger and more numerous than the ones to Adonai. Eventually an ideological rift developed and the Hebrews raided all the Asheran temples, massacring the acolytes and burning them to the ground. The whole don't boil a calf in the milk of its mother thing (which informs the separation of meat products and milk products in kosher diet) is a specific reference to an Asheran ritual meal, I think for weddings, but I'm not sure.

While I can't speak to whether misogyny is innate, I can say we've had periods in which goddesses were accepted alongside gods and in some cases were on top of the pantheon. We don't talk much about Gaea anymore even though in Hellenism she created everything on earth long before Poseidon was tinkering with horses. I think there's a division between Dionysian culture and Apollonian culture which parallels the shift from chthonic religion to celestial religion. (Chthonic gods are not to be confused with Cthonian gods, who are 20th century, and definitely celestial).

I can say that in the middle ages and the domination of Christianity, women were completely unpersoned and regarded as chattel beasts (despite their capacity to think and talk, both of which was discouraged). Even Mary, mother of Jesus was not even given due recognition until the 12th century.

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[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

even when they were attacked to an idiot, a malformed hunchback, a ne'er-do-well or the bastard progeny of a mixed coupling.

The serfs probably become more fit than the nobility over time because they had far more evolutionary pressure and diversity. The bloodline rules limited the nobility more than anything. One capable person doesn't change much genetically in the grand scheme of things. Nepotism and inequality are anti-meritocratic.

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[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Source for the whole kidnapping aspect?

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[-] Ithral 13 points 6 months ago

I'd guess they did, but I have no way to prove it. Let's build some and find out.

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[-] Ranger 9 points 6 months ago

Maybe the treasure was the community we formed as we had all the sex.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

This is like half the point of polyamory

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[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago

Re-establishment of clans and tribes will soon become an economic necessity for the poor. Unions would of course be better, but I'm not holding my breath.

[-] Ranger 39 points 6 months ago

Counterpoint: Clan night raids with fire & steal on the local oligarchs & tyrants.

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[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 61 points 6 months ago

All three in my triad are ADHD no one else cares enough to try to understand us but we have eachother.

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 months ago

Who up to join the polycule

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 51 points 6 months ago

Or just a co-op house so we don't feel obligated to copulate with each other, which we could do any ways in a co-op but only if we actually want to.

[-] match@pawb.social 48 points 6 months ago

nobody should ever feel obligated to copulate in any relationship :c

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[-] puchaczyk 41 points 6 months ago
[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Looks like name for next TOOL album

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Multiple wives might get you greater revenue but they have higher expenses.

Men, if you want more net savings, don't get multiple wives. Just get one husband. Problem solved. The gays figured out how to game the wage gap long ago. Lesbians still have trouble though.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Very much agree. Plus dicks are fun to play with! Right? I mean we all play with ours while sleeping in the dog h...couch! Right? But I think lesbians do better too.

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago

The polyamory will continue until we can form a ska band.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 months ago

Instantly reminded me of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

And the polyam belta fam from The Expanse

[-] LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

🎶 Come and knock on our door...🎶

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

You could room without the fucking, but I mean, have you seen streaming prices?

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

r/theonepolyjoke

[-] nowwhatnapster@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago
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[-] HEXN3T 15 points 6 months ago

I'd be down regardless tbh

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago

mood. when youre poly af but also forever alone af

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 14 points 6 months ago

I need two women to cuddle in bed with. Purely for economic reasons of course because I can't afford heating 😎

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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

A silver lining on this black cloud

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