Anyone here read Blanchard's stuff on hebephilia, specifically his arguments why it would be maladaptive?
Hebephilia is the preference for pubescent girls about 11-14. He argues this is a disorder and would have been maladaptive in prehistoric times.
What he doesn't realise is that it's common practice in primitive foraging societies for men to acquire pubescent girls as wives which means it must be adaptive otherwise it wouldn't have become common practice. Far from being maladaptive or a disorder, hebephilic preferences seem to be an adaptation for acquiring pubescent wives.
Blanchard has none of this, he thinks it's maladaptive and he's tried to back this up with reproductive statistics and stuff but his arguments don't work.
One argument involves the reproductive statistics from the Pume tribe gathered by Kramer. They show that girls who start reproducing before the age of 17 have fewer surviving offspring that those who start later and the younger the girl the fewer offspring.
He thinks this means that men who acquired say a 12yo wife would get fewer offspring from her than a man who acquires a 17yo wife but this doesn't follow for the simple reason that girls don't start reproducing at the age that men acquire them but rather a few years later. It's really stupid. He ignores the fact that most girls in the Pume tribe are married off before the age of 14 so we know the strategy works fine.
>>9004100
go back to pol you pedo
>>9004100
>it's common practice in primitive foraging societies for men to acquire pubescent girls as wives which means it must be adaptive otherwise it wouldn't have become common practice.
Cultural practice and societal norms aren't evolutionary traits.
>>9004118
Universal cultural practice and societal norms almost certainly are, such as the practice of marrying pubescent girls.
>>9004129
>Universal cultural practice and societal norms almost certainly are
No.
>>9004134
Provide examples of near-universal cultural practices or norms and explain the most plausible mechanism for their existence.
>>9004118
they are, though
>>9004100
He sounds way off on hebephilia, but as someone with moderate gender identity issues, I can say his stuff on transsexualism a red pill overdose.
>>9004187
>his stuff on transsexualism a red pill overdose.
Explain.
Serious question. What's the point of girls having their period in the range of 12-14 years old if when they get pregnant there is a massive risk of death and damage for both the girl and the baby and risk of malformation of the baby? Even before food with hormones girls still had their periods around that age so it's something biologically determined, but for what fucking purpose if there is such a chance of everything to go wrong?
Or am I being rused by risk in teen pregnancy studies.
>>9004191
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard%27s_transsexualism_typology
Basically there's a far more significant erotic component to transsexualism than most people are willing to acknowledge. As someone with a disgusting autogynephilic fetish I'm forced to confront it.
>>9004195
Evolution is kind of dumb.
Menarche doesn't actually mark the beginning of fertility, that doesn't usually happen until about 3 years later at which point it's safer for girls to get pregnant. Early pregnancy does still happen sometimes but not often enough for evolution to "care" too much.
>>9004168
No faggot, that's not how it works. You're the one making the positive claim, the burden of proof is on you.