How did mankind ever work out 'where babies come from'???

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Seriously - 9 months from sex to bubs - how did anyone ever work out the cause and effect??

Jacks - you've never eaten fermented roadkill badger? It's a great delicacy round these parts. Especially on a nice warm summer's day.

Or so our dogs would have us believe.

Roadkill in the heat smells like nothing else - and the 'fizzing' of the maggots in it is just so appealing.....

I thikn maybe they were more in tune with their bodies (and the animals they kept) than we think............but even so, yes - someone must have been the first to put two and two together...

I LOVE dead badger arse cheese Especially on toast

So who the feck thought that if you take some GRASS and squash the seeds up into dust and then mix that white dust with some shit (yeast) and stuff, then leave it to swell up AND then burn it over some sticks ... and then slice it and burn it again .... that you'd get TOAST! I mean!

They also used to think it was the man putting his 'seed' in the woman and that seed grew into a baby - i.e the woman just grew it - didn't contribute to the (unthought of) genetics.

No, sorry, fermented roadkill is not a delicacy in these parts. :o

I've thank FUCK never heard maggots fizz... have I been missing out?

I'm afraid it is a stupid question. Do you think that at some point 500BC someone put two and two together? People have been using contraceptive pessaries since at least 1800BC because they realised the obvious thing that a penis going into an orifice is linked to a baby coming out of it. As humanoids developed consciousness and language surely they developed a gradual understanding of their bodies. The fact that virgins don't have babies must have been a hint. Also, gestation periods must have been important to nomadic groups so they would pay close attention to the end of periods and the event of birth.

Prehistoric people weren't complete bumbling idiots. Sex and birth would have been a significant part of life.

Blinder, are you having a bad day?

Why not just say you disagree and here's how you think they figured it out... no need to say a question is stupid. Let's all play nice, ok?

Ports... eeeeewwwww! :o

Ah but did they milk badgers?

Maybe they did. Then you'd get fermented badger's milk cheese. That must smell a bit better than a dead badger's arse?

No-one's put a date on it blinder, we're just speculating how the realisation may have come about.

It's fine really - no worse than leaning in to hear snap, crackle and pop!

Jacksmania I'm having an absolutely lovely day. I am absolutely gobsmacked at the question. My friends are sitting here jaws agape too. I'm clearly in the minority on the thread though.

I even answered the question for the OP but that's not playing nice you say. Bear in mind I didn't call any person stupid but that question is exceedingly dim.

Fair enough. I'll wander off absolutely stunned.

I'm glad you're having a good day because it didn't sound like it :)
This is making me laugh, however, because I purposely made sure not to paraphrase your post into saying that you'd called someone stupid. I said "no need to say a question is stupid" and you turned it around anyway :o

I was taught there's no such thing as a stupid question. The stupid thing is not to ask if/when you don't know something.

to be fair Blinder - no one mentioned 500bc (only you) and i assume the OP was thinking a lot earlier than that.......someone at some point must have figured it out for the first time....

....even if it was Adam and Eve

My point is that no-one needed to work it out first. That's exactly the stupid premise that the question is built on. Gestation is not a random event. As humanity evolved (as I said earlier) it evolved a gradual understanding of itself. No one suddenly said, 'hang on! this sex thing and this birth thing seem to be connected!' And all the other cavemen said, 'ooooh! Well I never!'

Jeez.

Well, but you weren't around then... perhaps one caveman did say that very thing. The point is no-one knows.

New meaning for EBM then eh Bonzodoodah?

Expressed Badger Milk

That's hilarious. Yeah ok. ONE caveman discovered reproduction.

I wonder who had the first shit? Hmmm...

No-one "discovered" reproduction, they just had sex and sometimes babies happened. Eventually the connection was made; but how and by whom? If you're arguing that the knowledge is instinctive, why do we have to tell children where they came from?

.....and still groups of people in certain cultures need educating about contraception because they haven't put two and two together....

I'm not arguing the knowledge is instinctive! But there is no first human without previous reproducing humans. Over. Time. Humans. Gradually. Evolved. An. Awareness. Of. Their. Bodies. In their family groups.

I am banging my head on a brick wall.

Yes some cultures have confusion about contraception but they know that sex makes babies. Really.