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Simians Seek Sybaritic Satiation

tens of thousands years ago (a figurative out in left field ball park figure) *****Sapiens (or the forebears of said species), deliberately sought sensate satisfaction with deliberate zeal shucking clothes (perhaps just an animal pelt hiding pubes) answering (on a private line), the call of the wild, not yet verboten feral common weal way before the identification of venereal disease (though most likely germinal forerunner), yet to rank as demise forecasting deterministic, fetishistic, hedonistic inviting      Gonorrhea, Herpes, Syphilis, et cetera to an unveil ling, then (of course) average life span of primate predecessors brief, nasty, and short, thus demise from sexually transmitted disease unlikely the cause of death, nor spelled catastrophe that would seal the fate of mankind unlike the here and now, when the Apocalypse Israel aside from conflagration decimating Rohingya's, Uighur's, Yazidi's, countless other minority populations severe distress they feel plus Middle Eastern countries got a raw deal subjected to their own variety of slaughter, which genocide ranks as Syria us injustice calling for immediate appeals, injunctions, sanctions humanitarian appeal against inhumane abominations, terrorization, violations rather than passively witness innocent lives being trumped.

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