I've been lurking on this discussion (and I'm much too busy and plummeting into a head cold to really participate much), but this bit got me:
A society which doesn't care whether your bits are dangly or not wouldn't have any way to differentiate who you sleep with.
Au contraire, mon frere.
Such a society might not cast moral aspersions on which dangly bits you prefer, but it would certainly "differentiate." Browse the personal ads of any newspaper, anywhere, or go into any cruising bar (again, anywhere), and you'll see what I mean. Skin color, build, relative size of your dangly bits, how much/little hair you have, what bodymods you've done, how you smell, how your teeth look, what you're wearing... etc. etc. etc.
Unless we live in a society like this one, these differentiations will still matter, in much the same way that ice cream flavors, paint colors, and genre preferences matter.
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A society which doesn't care whether your bits are dangly or not wouldn't have any way to differentiate who you sleep with.
Au contraire, mon frere.
Such a society might not cast moral aspersions on which dangly bits you prefer, but it would certainly "differentiate." Browse the personal ads of any newspaper, anywhere, or go into any cruising bar (again, anywhere), and you'll see what I mean. Skin color, build, relative size of your dangly bits, how much/little hair you have, what bodymods you've done, how you smell, how your teeth look, what you're wearing... etc. etc. etc.
Unless we live in a society like this one, these differentiations will still matter, in much the same way that ice cream flavors, paint colors, and genre preferences matter.
And that's a good thing.