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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by klyrs on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:50PM (#37812753)
> if the meme is extremely detrimental to the evolutionary fitness of its hosts

This phrase is doing so much work, the rest of your comment was able to retire in the Bahamas. Sounds a lot like the argument that gay people don't exist because they don't reproduce.

Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by Georgelemental on Sunday October 08, 2023 @02:19PM (#37813039)
Sexual behavior was traditionally constrained by the requirements of survival—you needed a certain number of children to help till the fields and avoid starvation, so people subordinated personal desires to necessity. Today the risk of death is removed, so people do what they want—and "what they want" is therefore subject to greater selective pressure.
Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by klyrs on Sunday October 08, 2023 @07:47PM (#37815467)
Your picture of the human condition predates the agricultural revolution. That doesn't mesh with your idea that evolution happens in the blink of a couple generations.