Basic needs

A good quote from Sex at Dawn on page 103, but it's actually from William and Jean Crocker from one of their publications, discussing the Canela people of the Brazilian Amazon region:

"Sharing possessions brought esteem. Sharing one's body was a direct corollary. Desiring control over one's good and self was a form of stinginess. In this context, it is easy to understand why women chose to please men and why men chose to please women who expressed strong sexual needs. No one was so self-important that satisfying a fellow tribesman was less gratifying than personal gain." (emphasis theirs)

So here we see that there is a direct link between our culture's attitudes about sex and our inability to stop fighting with each other. Specifically, we fight because of a perceived lack of possessions. This is because we've made sex into a hoarded and rare resource. There is enough sex out there for everyone, but our society is structured so that we think we don't have enough.

We fear uncertain paternity- when, in fact, such a thing could be our greatest boon. Many of these older cultures see paternity as communal, and to have another man with a stake in the raising of your children is a positive concept that maintains and strengthens community bonds. Ryan and Jetha even mention a quote explaining homosexuality by E.O. Wilson on page 104, "all above a form of bonding... consistent with the greater part of heterosexual behavior as a device that cements relationship."

Now that is even more evidence for my personal folder of evidence against the Judeo-Islamo-Christian worldview. I've known for years that system of thought begets violence, and I've known it had something to do with seeing things linear as opposed to circular. One part of that is to assume we are different from each other, and should only be joined in controlled circumstances. Homosexuality doesn't fit in those controlled circumstances, even if it poses no physical threat to said control. Their worldview seems to be based on the exact opposite of truth and what makes us happy. Now I can understand why some people think that worldview was designed by nefarious intelligences to undermine our nature, it almost seems to be inflicted upon us. But maybe any other worldview equally based on untruth would have similar characteristics.