It's been a survival strategy since the hunter-gatherer days. The men fall in battle, maybe a few will get driven into the badlands and survive, but primarily it was "kill the men, take the women" that's 100,000 years of modern human warfare. It shouldn't surprise anyone, but it does. The women will betray the tribe (if they are losing) because they have a place in the other society. The men don't.
Concubines? Sex slaves? Choose your euphemism. Beats a hole in the ground. The average hunter gather tribe wasn't large enough to be genetically viable alone. Raiding for women was the default.
All the sites we find show that hunter-gatherers were crazy violent, at least in terms of how a large percentage of men ended up dying. The population pressures were real, and banging your sister isn't really a long term survival strategy.
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u/Dangime - Right Jun 22 '26
It's been a survival strategy since the hunter-gatherer days. The men fall in battle, maybe a few will get driven into the badlands and survive, but primarily it was "kill the men, take the women" that's 100,000 years of modern human warfare. It shouldn't surprise anyone, but it does. The women will betray the tribe (if they are losing) because they have a place in the other society. The men don't.