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RE: All that glitters is not gold. It could be a ripe fruit too.
If the wearing of gold protected the female from rape, what of the thief that saw the glistening jewelry, didn't this just make her a delicious golden apple? I got laid with and without out gold, for which I am grateful. ....dont you think silver works too? If indeed it works for your skin tone, like mine?
Maybe you could write and article on how the gold seeking ladies are somewhat shallow, and the brief relationship can be problematic, and how this in time has set an evolutionare track to
a material ridden averousness, and how that might effect getting laid in the present.
Fun thoughts,
K
Hi, I omitted the rape part (for now), because it is not relevant for the theory (put it is still true though), and it probably just create confusion. The point is that rapists are usually very low status men that do not have the opportunity to spread their genes other than raping. I here exclude rape during war, which is a totally different story. High status men almost never rape, because they had access to lots of women, and raping her would just make her more likely to get sick (infections etc.). The only thing that prevent a man with very low social status from raping, is if he expected to be killed after the rape. A woman wearing lots of gold where certainly the mistress og wife of one of the leaders and the rapist would have been very likely to be killed after the rape. But she would certainly been tempting with the gold, so you can also say that she could wear gold because she knew that she could not be rape. Same results though. The main point is that raping has been a very important (but dark) part of human history. Just writing about it is probably very taboo, but you have to factor it in if you are going to understand evolutionary psychology. I do believe that gold has been the most important because it also has the color most similar to fruits. Otherwise silver should have been much more expensive than it is. Silver is also very manipulated though (see my JP Morgan post), so you could have a valid point.
Understandable, yes this gold seeking status has been seen in primate behavior, Female Baboons are known to temp the males while they get the first dibs on a kill or fruit. They will temp the male away from the food so another female will then come in and take the food and then share with the female that it just mated with the male, yet in the Bonobo world of chimps where there is only sharing of food and sex.. with almost everyone...
I think consciousness which cannot be measured ,as you know with emperical data has a lot to do with how we unconsciously respond to the idea of lack or supply of anything...or the negation thereof.
Appreciation for your generous vote and quality of mind.
K