Animals don’t need to wipe because they don’t have massive glutes evolved to support an entire upright body while also walking and running. This is the curse of our intelligence and endurance.
Something that blows my mind is realising how much of our understanding of sex and attraction is socially constructed. For example, there are plenty of documented cultures where women’s breasts don’t have the erotic connotation we attach to them. The thing that really threw me off was learning about some people who don’t kiss as a show of affection — I found this a surreal concept, because in terms of romantic interactions with a partner, I’m fairly meh about sex, but I’m a big fan of kissing/making out; There’s a sense in which I obviously know that preference towards kissing is likely not an evolved trait, but more sociocultural, but it feels so intuitive that something so visceral isn’t necessarily an innate trait.
Anyway, this is a long way of saying “did we evolve to like butts, though?”. Evolutionary biology, the field that would consider questions like these, is unavoidably pretty heavy on the speculation side — given that humans have evolved to be such social creatures, we can’t really separate out the sociocultural aspects of development from the genetic side, and that makes asking evolutionary questions on large timescales to be a tricky endeavour.
Edit: This isn’t to say that asking these questions is pointless to do. I appreciated your question precisely because it’s the kind of thing that cooks my brain (and I enjoy that)
Something like that happened to “a friend”. During a several day hike, a #2 in the wood was wiped a bit too hastily and some of it was missed.
Now the remnant bits dried and glued the hair from both cheeks together, during the hike after that my “friend” could feel the hairs being pulled from one side to another at each step he was taking.
Animals don’t need to wipe because they don’t have massive glutes evolved to support an entire upright body while also walking and running. This is the curse of our intelligence and endurance.
Did we evolve to like butts because walking upright upright was advantageous? Or did we evolve to walk upright because we liked butts?
Butts are the original boobs.
I dunno, but some other brother might deny
Something that blows my mind is realising how much of our understanding of sex and attraction is socially constructed. For example, there are plenty of documented cultures where women’s breasts don’t have the erotic connotation we attach to them. The thing that really threw me off was learning about some people who don’t kiss as a show of affection — I found this a surreal concept, because in terms of romantic interactions with a partner, I’m fairly meh about sex, but I’m a big fan of kissing/making out; There’s a sense in which I obviously know that preference towards kissing is likely not an evolved trait, but more sociocultural, but it feels so intuitive that something so visceral isn’t necessarily an innate trait.
Anyway, this is a long way of saying “did we evolve to like butts, though?”. Evolutionary biology, the field that would consider questions like these, is unavoidably pretty heavy on the speculation side — given that humans have evolved to be such social creatures, we can’t really separate out the sociocultural aspects of development from the genetic side, and that makes asking evolutionary questions on large timescales to be a tricky endeavour.
Edit: This isn’t to say that asking these questions is pointless to do. I appreciated your question precisely because it’s the kind of thing that cooks my brain (and I enjoy that)
The baboons have been oddly quiet since you asked this
Let’s cut the shit, it’s the curse our fat asses.
With a poop knife?
Only way to be sure.
Technically humans don’t have to wipe either. But it would be like dried Nutella in a shag carpet.
Something like that happened to “a friend”. During a several day hike, a #2 in the wood was wiped a bit too hastily and some of it was missed.
Now the remnant bits dried and glued the hair from both cheeks together, during the hike after that my “friend” could feel the hairs being pulled from one side to another at each step he was taking.
Not a great experience.
you know, you dont have to share every thought that crosses your mind
No, no, thoughts like that are the entire point of the internet, and language itself
For the cleaning fetish people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuWkC9wby5E