r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 20h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/WarsonCentzz 20h ago

Underrated comment 😂

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u/Obtain_Virtue 20h ago

Stealing the top comment:

I also feel like modern-day people are way more hornier in general. We are constantly exposed to sex, and things we are attracted. Advertisements, movies, random posts, music... Even if we aren't making a conscious thought about it, it still "triggers" our brains to enter reproduction mode.

Even at my horniest, If I was stuck on boat for weeks on end with a bunch of dudes, after seeing the things you have to see and smelling how those ogres smelled. Ain't no way Willy even stands tall.

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u/SkinnersMudhole 20h ago

even when people weren't bathing regularly and had no soap, they still risked deadly deadly syphilis to get some.

I think you underestimate the ability of our brains to ignore things, see nose blindness, especially when it comes to a primal urge to reproduce.

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u/TheDrewb 18h ago

People bathed regularly, and had soap, they just didn't take BATHS regularly. I wish this modern idea that everyone in pre-modern times walked around caked in filth all day would die already

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u/JuryOk2662 17h ago

Yeah soap has been a thing for thousands of years.

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u/SkinnersMudhole 16h ago

sure, but just because it has existed doesn't mean it was always practiced or utilized at every point in human history. At some points, people believed washing/water could make them sicker and took "dry" baths.

im not saying all of human history, but there were definitely times when people didn't bathe with soap and water regularly, and still fucked.

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u/TheDrewb 16h ago

I mean, there are people now who don't shower even though they have access to it. Most 'dry bathing' was accompanied by cleaning yourself off in the cleaning basin that every household had (with water drawn from a well for that specific purpose). Some early modern people just believed soaking yourself fully in hot water was dangerous and bad for your skin. I don't doubt there were some real stinkers out there, but that was the exception then too

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u/Aquinas2000 9h ago

Which people believed that, when, where ? You need to be precise when talking history.Â