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How different would civilization be if humans had "mating season" ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don't care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can't resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.

How would this impact the civilisation ?

I know about David Brin's *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.

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[–] slooopy_potatoe@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of how the Vulkans have it in Star Trek. I'm no expert but there was an episode where Spock went into his horny craze :)

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

This had been a theme through multiple Trek series. They call it Pon farr.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, it's the Pon Farr, that makes Vulkans have blood fever. The episode you are talking about is Amok Time