A Possible Explanation for Women's Tendencies towards Masochism, Desiring Bad Men and Treatment, and Pleasure in Sex Slavery
You read the title?* Well the explanation lies in our innate and normal (as in common, essential, and you can’t rid of it) tendency towards genocide. Note that normal doesn’t mean good. Most crime is “normal.” It’s certainly not crazy. “Normal” just means “not nuts.”
Humans seem to have an innate tendency towards genocide as hard as it is to believe. I know it continues to be to this day in the Amazon where tribes raid other tribes to get women because they think they are short of women.
They raid neighboring tribes, kill all the men, and take all the women and children as sex or house slaves respectively. States like Peru have stated to get involved and tell them to knock it off. This is one tribal custom they’re not willing to tolerate.
I started thinking genocide was innate when I was going through a list of uncontacted tribes in the Amazon in the last hundred years. Over and over I found reports of Indian bands or tribes with the notation:
Apparently genocided in yeah XXXX.
Over and …
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