In the early stage of human society, women occupied the main management position of society. They often had a fixed residence, had surplus food, and also kept edible livestock in captivity. Men often have nothing but strength (at most one hound). In this case, if a man wants to marry a wife, he needs to work at the woman's home first, which is the earliest form of marriage of mankind - service marriage.
With the development of productivity, people have learned to plant edible plants, which makes some men start to have surplus food, which greatly reduces their dependence on hunting and turns them into a new rich class. Therefore, when the man needs a wife at this time, in addition to working at the woman's home, he can also choose to give the woman's parents some money or things as a substitute, so the business marriage appears. The emergence of business marriage marks the arrival of the age of women as male appendages.
This is the case in society. Whoever has more means of production will have control. Men who have gained control of society will try every means to control women in the next few thousand years, trying to make them weak and highlight their strength. In terms of methods, in addition to making rules for them, we should also control them through thinking.
As the main manager of society, men will set the rules of sex game according to the number of women, which is one of the "tricks" of control: when there are more women and fewer men, they will preach the importance of chastity; When there are fewer women and more men, sexual liberation has become the mainstream slogan of society. For example, in the 1960s, Americans used to advocate "sexual liberation" crazily, but now they are advocating "virgin movement" again. The changes before and after this appear to be the return of people's sexual concept, but the essence is that there were too few women at that time, which made many men unable to get sex; Now that the number of women has increased and men have more access to sex, they naturally began to demand chastity and abstinence.
Some people may wonder why the history of abstinence at all times and in all countries is so long, and sexual liberation, even if publicized, is only a flash in the pan? Is it because the number of men is often lower than that of women?
The answer is yes.
First of all, sperm with XX gene is always more competitive than sperm with XY gene, so without human intervention, the normal birth rate of female infants is always higher than that of male infants; Secondly, because men participate in more external activities, they encounter greater risks in the process of growth, and the probability of being able to grow up is lower than that of women; Finally, women live longer than men and are more resistant to diseases and accidental injuries.
In the past 30 years of family planning in China, due to the deep-rooted concept of "carrying on the family line" and the social background of "only one child", the birth rate of male babies has been higher than that of female babies. Now the tolerance of sexual values in society is becoming larger and larger. It can be predicted that sexual liberation will be an inevitable trend in the next 15-20 years.