The movement of feminism in western countries has intrigued me a lot, especially the wave in the 60’s with regard to sexual liberty. I believe the idea of sexual liberty is still popular in western societies nowadays. This randomly reminded me of Freud’s idea of the “Libido” and Sartre’s idea of existentialism. Libido is defined as the instinct energy or force, contained within what Freud called the “id”. It is this sexual desire that makes sexual behavior justifiable. And according to Sartre, existence precedes essence, therefore human beings have the freedom to create their own essence and since they are themselves freedoms, they are free to choose. Based on these theories, people are able to claim for sexual liberty.
While sexual liberty offered people the freedom to have sex and enjoy the life, meanwhile it has brought about some consequences which people might be unaware of. An article I recently read has unveiled some really interesting and unbelievable facts. Sexual liberty can lower people’s intelligence! The article showed a research fact that for males, the bigger their genitals are, the smaller the dimensions of their brains are and therefore their IQs are lower too. The example of the ancient Egyptian civilization has helped prove it. Everyone would stand in awe at the pyramid their ancestors had built in ancient times but nobody today could ever be able to build up a similar architecture. It is obviously telling us that modern people are not as smart as the ancient Egyptian people. After this, the article tells us more about how later Egyptians had fell to other nations and how other people such as the Jews still preserve higher IQs. If the Egyptian had had the similar IQs as their ancestors, they would have not lost to any other invaders. But the fact that they are losing almost everything to other people has clearly proved that their IQs are no longer as high as before. Due to the long and old ages these Egyptians people were living in, it is hard to find enough evidence to prove that sexual liberty is the only reason to lower their IQs. But the fact that other people such as the Jewish still have high IQs nowadays because of their conservative ways of living has more or less proved it to be true.
Personally I have no doubt in this fact because I’ve also heard some similar examples occurred in countries like China (in ancient times) and Japan. Sadly though, there is no way to tell what will happen in the future if the society goes on like this. In western countries, sexual liberty will always be a popular fad, and this is largely due to the culture so it’s not easy to change it. There’s certainly no fault in this fad but people should at least be aware of it just for the sake of their descendants.
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ReplyDeleteI am a little perplexed by the methods that were used to prove that sexual liberty leads to lower intelligence, as I feel this would be extremely hard to test. It would be difficult to make an operational definition of "sexual liberty" and to find a representative sample of people on which to test this hypothesis. I also don't really understand how the example of the Ancient Egyptians and their empire falling is known to be caused by sexual liberty and/or lowered intelligence as a result of this, as this happened far back in the past and there is probably not very reliable data of the IQ's of these ancient people. It also seems to me to be a broad statement to assume that the modern day Egyptians of are not as intelligent as their ancestors, because there is no way to prove or test this.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Virginia's opinion on the unreliability of the data of the Egyptian Research.
ReplyDeleteWould you please post the link to the article on here?
I am pre-med and it is absolutely impossible for a persons genetics to change as a result of being sexually active. Just because you become sexually active earlier in life does not mean that you pass down 'dumber' genes to your offspring.
Yeah, I personally have doubts on this too. And it is also said in the article that since the Egyptian people lived long ago, it's hard to prove this to be true. However, the fact that Jewish people are still smart today because of their conservative way of living must at least prove something, right? There are also examples of say, Japanese people. A Japanese writer used to write an article about how fast Japan had developed right after World War Two in its manufacturing industry because of the high intelligence of their people. But in recent years, people have expressed concerns about their future generations because they are no longer able to do carry on the technology their forefathers have passed on to them (Although we know Japan is advanced in its technology today, it's hard to predict what's going to happen in the future). And obviously Japan has invested a lot on its education industry, so people should have been well educated and getting smarter. But the reality is they are getting dumber. And the reason for this phenomenon, said the writer, is the popularity of the adult entertainment industry. I guess that's what everyone would have heard of so I might not need to explain more. And it could be because of this that the Japanese people are getting more decadent.
ReplyDeleteThere are explanations for this, but again, I'm not sure if it makes sense. Basically, there are limited resources of energy in our body. And it is divided between the germ cell system, neural stem cell system, and the stem cell system. The stem cell system is crucial in sustaining the body so it has its own energy conserved. The rest of the energy is allocated between germ cell system and the neural stem cell system. The bigger the germ cell system, it uses up more energy, thus the neural stem cell system has less. And most importantly, this applies only to males according to the article.