Timeline for Why would pedophilia exist? [duplicate]
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| Jun 15 at 18:03 | comment | added | Jax | Additionally, humans use sex as a way to bind communities together, and as messed up as it is, child sexual abuse would have probably been a way to relieve stress and sexual frustration without burdening the group with the risk of another child being born, and would make the tribe's otherwise relatively useless children "useful." | |
| Jun 15 at 18:01 | comment | added | Jax | My best guess is that it's probably beneficial in a certain context. This is pure conjecture, but if a child's parents died, the group would raise them, however they wouldn't get the benefit of having a parent to advocate for their interests. If a pedophile took a liking to such a kid though, the easy sexual access might cause the pedophile to have a reason to care about the kid's wellbeing, and the pedophil might for the kid's advancement in the tribe. So basically, one possibility is that pedophilia in a tribal setting creates a natural caste of orphan caretakers. | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 2:22 | history | closed |
mgkrebbs Remi.b David The Last Word kmm |
Duplicate of Why do some bad traits evolve, and good ones don't? | |
| Dec 10, 2018 at 1:11 | comment | added | theforestecologist♦ | I can't imagine this is at all genetically linked, but rather a learned behavior or result of some traumatic experience in the person's own past. | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 18:46 | comment | added | user38945 | Can someone provide data on just how heritable pedophilia is? Establishing a high heredity is necessary before applying Darwinian logic. | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 17:25 | answer | added | Karl Kjer | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 2, 2018 at 18:32 | comment | added | Remi.b | There are a lot of societal influences in our behaviour and also there is a lot of room, in our complex society, for developing behaviour that are side-consequence of other behavioural features that have been selected. It does not mean that "Darwinian thinking" (whatever that means) is not applicable to human behaviour but only that seeing everything as a result of selection is very misleading (and Darwin never made this mistake, hence why the term "Darwinian thinking" is misleading), maybe esp. when it comes to human behaviour. | |
| Dec 2, 2018 at 17:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 2, 2018 at 9:41 | history | asked | Lorry Laurence mcLarry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |