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Primates and Prejudice: with Dr. Frans de Waal

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I've Observed the Bonobos in the Wild.

I live in a Puritan country. And so sex is just loaded with shame baggage. You don't see that in the primate world or do you? I don't know. What are your thoughts? It'd be more of a philosophical question, but you've observed them in the wild. We see the bonobos without any concepts of shame or sexual shame. There were absolutely no complaints about people. People thought that maybe everyone would get very upset, but no one got upset about it. So in the US, there is often an enormous shyness about these things. Nudity, sexuality and so on. But that's an aberration,. You're one of the few societies

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