Scott Pen
Scott Pen
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

This is a pretty extreme exaggeration, no?

The conventional understanding of human evolution is that Homo Sapiens emerged approximately 300,000 years ago, and the earliest known depiction of a human is around 40,000 years old. Although that depiction is considered by some to be erotic in nature, it’s certainly not porn. So what’s the earliest known depiction of sexual activity? At this time, anywhere in between 7,000 and 5,000 years ago.

So, with the knowledge we have on hand, pornography has been around for between 2% and 3% of the time that humans have been around.

So you start with an obvious truth: “Pornography is not new.” Stating an obvious truth is one way to establish your trustworthiness as a source. Then you follow it up with “It has been around as long as humans.” Do people then believe that too, if they’re lulled into trust because of the previously stated truth?

Is that why you equated porn with makeup earlier?

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