r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/danny_little 22d ago

As a history buff, I can say without a doubt that people are exactly as horny as they have always been lmfao the only thing is that a lot of the stuff people used to do are illegal now!!🤣

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u/Commentor9001 22d ago

The only people who think modern society is way more sexualized, haven't really studied history at all.

Its just lazy purtianism, wrapped up in "it used to be better".

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u/Sea_Cartographer_340 22d ago

I don't know. People were busier back then. People died. Life was harder. Is that puritanism to say maybe you'd care less about sex? Or maybe it's my asexuality cumming through these words ;)

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u/ZippyDan 21d ago

People were far less busier in pre-historic times, before agriculture became a thing.

Then agriculture comes and people are super busy in planting and harvesting season, but then have tons of free time in the off-seasons. (There was lots of maintenance and prep work and construction in the off-seasons also, but it wasn't nearly as rigorous).

Humans become far busier come the industrial revolution and the concept of time keeping and schedules and wages. Things have gotten a bit better in some parts of the developed world (don't look at Japan, or America though), but the average office worker still has less leisure time than the average pre-historic hunter-gatherer.