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by anonymfus 3701 days ago
Make sex abundant by changing culture.

One proposal in Russian feminism movement in the beginning of XX century was "glass of water theory" (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Теория_стакана_воды , sadly there is no good English source) that stated that providing sex must be as easy as providing a glass of water to somebody who asks for one, and concepts of love/relationships/family/jealousy/cheating (which were viewed as related to interpretation of marriage as a sort of slavery) must be deprecated for this.

Other interesting proposal made by Eliezer Yudkowsky in the "Three Worlds Collide" novella was legalising rape.

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> Other interesting proposal by Eliezer Yudkowsky made in "Three Worlds Collide" novella was legalising rape.

Ohhh. It is satire. You had me ಠ_ಠ for a moment.

Many readers want it to be satire. That doesn't mean that it is.
>concepts of love/relationships/family/jealousy/cheating

I share a similar view,

But our current set up won't allow for something like that.

When you take out those concepts, you will see a human being suddenly has a lot less potential disasters/sufferings hanging over his head, which makes him harder to control and exploit, which is all living in todays world is about. Being exploited nicely.

Give a man a family or put him in a 'romantic' relationship. You will see that he get reduced to pulp, Easily controllable and mouldable into anything as required by the state and similar establishments...

They won't let that change happen.