Humanity has had lots of very unsafe sex for the last one million years and survived just fine. The risks are more to the individual than the species as a whole.
We all live in a single Petri dish now. A few thousand years ago humanity existed in many many isolated communities and was much more resilient to disease. Regular pandemics every ~10 years are very much a side effect of technology.
The comment about dying early made sense: Just because we lived with unprotected sex for the last million years (and we changed genetically due to some viruses that we got along the way) it doesn’t mean that we’re now still willing to bear the consequences.
I’m willing to bet that nowadays we have far more sexual partners than we’ve had since we started “society”
Many people can go their entire lives having the internet as their sole partner.
That indicates that the vast majority of people has at least one sexual partner, with many having a lot more thanks to sexual liberation.
For the record, I’m not saying that this is a bad thing at all. I was just alluding to the fact that we can’t compare life and expectations of safety to what it was even 100 years ago, let alone over “millions of years”
As opposed to people being ignorant about statistics and constantly parroting crap like "people only lived to 30 before modern medicine"?