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Comment by cluckindan

17 hours ago

They had similar wonderings in the Victorian era, and probably in the Roman empire and ancient Greece too.

Yes, human nature hasn't changed but there is a reason why only recently obesity epidemic has developed.

Cheap unlimited access to stuff that was always scarce during human evolution creates an 'evolutionary mismatch' where unlimited access to stuff bypasses our lack of natural satiety mechanisms.

They might well have been right - I'm no anthropologist.

Certainly they had neither the quantity nor ease of access that we do.

Is your take that the way we view sexuality today is not meaningfully different from the Victorian era?

Have you ever stopped to realize that, from the Victorian’s point of view, they have been proven completely right about what would happen if ladies started showing their ankles?