How different would civilization be if humans had "mating season" ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don't care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can't resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.

How would this impact the civilisation ?

I know about David Brin's *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago

I had the discussion the other day of how civilization would be different if humans followed the 'have loads of babies at once and see which ones survive' style of reproduction.

"Oh hi Sarah! How're the kids?"

"Oh, little Jeremy wasn't eating as much as the others so I threw him outside onto the road."

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 45 points 4 months ago

We probably wouldn’t name them until they had reached a certain age

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

"Number 5 and Number 7 ate Number 3 last night."

[-] AeroNaut@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

Missed opportunity there mate:

7 8 9

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 months ago

6 now lives in fear of his younger sibling.

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