I’m a married, monogamous person who would love to be able to adjust my sex drive to match my spouse’s (and I think we would both choose to adjust up).
The Twilight books do an interesting riff of the themes of eternal life, monogamy, and extremely high sex drives.
If enough feel similarly, and the discrepancy is real, the means will move toward each through voluntary shifts without forcing anything on anyone, incidentally.
What “voluntary shifts” do you mean? I agree that small shifts in sex drive are possible based on individual choice, but not large ones. Also, why do the means matter?
Ah, misunderstanding. I did not mean “shifts by volition alone”, but “voluntary as opposed to forced” as pertains to AspiringKnitter’s earlier worry about Yudkowsky forcing “some sort of compromise where we lowered male sex drive a little and increased female sex drive a little.”
If interpreted as a prediction rather than a recommendation, it might happen through individual choice if the ability to modify these things directly becomes sufficiently available (and sufficiently safe, and sufficiently accepted, &c) because of impulses like those you expressed: pairings that desire to be monogamous and who are otherwise compatible might choose to self modify to be compatible on this axis as well, and this will move the averages closer together.
I’m a married, monogamous person who would love to be able to adjust my sex drive to match my spouse’s (and I think we would both choose to adjust up).
The Twilight books do an interesting riff of the themes of eternal life, monogamy, and extremely high sex drives.
If enough feel similarly, and the discrepancy is real, the means will move toward each through voluntary shifts without forcing anything on anyone, incidentally.
What “voluntary shifts” do you mean? I agree that small shifts in sex drive are possible based on individual choice, but not large ones. Also, why do the means matter?
Ah, misunderstanding. I did not mean “shifts by volition alone”, but “voluntary as opposed to forced” as pertains to AspiringKnitter’s earlier worry about Yudkowsky forcing “some sort of compromise where we lowered male sex drive a little and increased female sex drive a little.”
If interpreted as a prediction rather than a recommendation, it might happen through individual choice if the ability to modify these things directly becomes sufficiently available (and sufficiently safe, and sufficiently accepted, &c) because of impulses like those you expressed: pairings that desire to be monogamous and who are otherwise compatible might choose to self modify to be compatible on this axis as well, and this will move the averages closer together.
Got it, thanks.