Humanity invented a unique moral law, increasing women's fertility. The human memome (rhymes with genome) includes a great number of rules and forbiddances, opposed to the natural behavior (dictated by the genome). According to the biblical moral laws, natural behavior was defined as despicable and "beastly". The moral laws were deeply embedded in the human society and became taboos. Today these Memes are considered a part of the correct way of living. The taboos differ in the small details from one cultural imperative to another, but are identical in essence. Let us try and examine the crucial contribution of three of them to the population growth process:
1. Forbiddance of pregnancy without marriage
According to the biblical moral laws, "desecration of family honor" was considered a capital offense. God forbids women to have sex before their wedding. The purpose of this draconian prohibition is clear, it is meant to prevent pregnancies of unattached women. The ancient chauvinistic idea denies the legitimacy of a natural maternal behavior! The ancients forced their control through these rules. These ideas are responsible for shortening the natural time gap (of about four years) separating between a woman's pregnancies.
2. Legal prohibition on sex that is defined unnatural
The mythical story about the ancient evils of "Sodom and Gomorrah" served the population growth very well. The mythological sinners were destroyed in an earthquake, and in our language the expression "Sodomy" has been preserved as a legal term describing anal sex. The biblical moral, forbids sexual activities that may disrupt fast increase of population (since they are more tempting than monogamy) like for example group sex and homosexuality.
3. Total deny of the sexuality of children
According to the rules of the Torah, masturbation is considered a mortal sin. As a result of this idea, masturbation has become the most common mental disease in Europe and America of the late nineteenth century. Boy and girls that were caught masturbating were sent by the worried parents to psychiatric hospital. Sixty years ago, a district doctor from California published a press release regarding: "the dangerous mental illness, masturbation". He urged parents to take immediate care of their sick children, since new medical research has proved that this disease develops into schizophrenia at adulthood. The medical treatment recommended for the "compulsive" cases was simple, the parents had to be strict and tie the hands of the potential masturbator behind his back, every evening before sleep. |
