> This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children...
I used to help moderate a LiveJournal community called "amipregnant" and this is a laughably false assertion.
"Yes, you can get pregnant your first time having sex" and "no, you can't get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat a boy used" were both pretty common sorts of things we had to tell folks.
Re:Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011)
by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:33PM
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Do you have proof that societal pressure via shaming results in systematic changes the way you’re describing? From what I remember, there are studies regarding the shaming of women and bodily image that doesnt seem to correlate shaming for misbehavior with better behavior (Ie. Eating less).
That's a bit of a special case, because shaming creates stress, while people with an eating disorder eat to reduce stress.
Otherwise, I think it's self-evident. There's many behaviors that would've been socially unacceptable a hundred years ago, which today are accepted and far more common. For a somewhat related example, consider inter-racial or (to some degree) inter-religious marriages.
Re:Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011)
by SolaceQuantum on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:48AM
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If it’s self evident, then it should be rudimentary to study.
This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children, just like everyone knows smoking can cause cancer. People just take the risk anyway. It's basic human irrationality, no amount of education can fix it.
Societal pressure, on the other hand, does have some of the desired effect, even if it's not a "nice thing" like education.