tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post1582722358444289108..comments2024-03-27T14:20:05.905-04:00Comments on Montclair SocioBlog: Like a Virgin – Whatever That WasJay Livingstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-25271687174488586822011-07-13T17:38:24.469-04:002011-07-13T17:38:24.469-04:00It's true that we don't know for certain a...It's true that we don't know for certain about humans of 100,000 years ago. But we do have 19th- and 20th-century ethnographies of hunter-gatherers like th !Kung San, the Mbuti Pygmies, aboriginal Australians, groups in New Guinea, the Philipines, Africa, and elsewhere. Paleontologists extrapolate back from these. Besides, it seems unlikely that the ancestors of these foragers, going back many millenia, would have been <i>more</i> virginity-obsessed and that with no change in their basic way of life, that obsession would have disappeared.Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-19468743370427219112011-07-13T11:50:40.726-04:002011-07-13T11:50:40.726-04:00Aren't you contradicting yourself?
For a few ...Aren't you contradicting yourself?<br /><br /><i>For a few hundred thousand years, we humans lived as hunter-gatherers – small, egalitarian bands, nomadic and with fluid membership . . . and not much concern for virginity. The societies that prize virginity are agricultural and pastoral... Pre-literate hunter-gatherers left no accounts their canons of morality. </i><br /><br />If they left no accounts, how can you say they weren't concerned about virginity?Bob S.http://3boxesofbs.comnoreply@blogger.com