If only based on typical human behaviour: Probably both. There's always someone that's into something a bit different, so if Sapiens and Neaderthals intermixed sufficiently, there'll always be some couple that gets it on. Hell, there's people that fuck dogs (and dogs that try to fuck people). If dogs had been capable of consenting, I'm absolutely positive that some consenting human/dog couple would exist. I would say that consenting inter-species couples would have been inevitable given enough mixing of the groups.

Then there's also the long history of sexual violence in conflicts. Sapiens and Neanderthals were competing for resources, so there's bound to have been tribal conflict at some point. Just based on how humans behave in that kind of situation, it's pretty much guaranteed that people were raped during those conflicts.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Hell beyond sexual violence in conflicts, H. sapiens has a long cross cultural tradition of using marriage to seal peace. Sex to resolve conflict is also present in one of our closest extant relatives (the bonobo), though not in their closest relative. We know very little about Neanderthals' behavior. We don't even know to what extent their behavior was cultural vs instinctive. If prior to reestablishment of contact sapiens were sending daughters as part of peace (as we did until relatively recently) while Neanderthals were sending sons and nobody wanted to fight over this difference you could wind up with an entirely cultural reason for this split.

Topics like these greatly sadden me as I think of all the cousins we killed before we even had the technology to write about them. What a fascinating world it must have been to have other members of our genus around, and how sad none were in any of the places we reached last.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I know some vegans who are going to be very upset with this point of view.

[–] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Forgive me if I am wrong, but it seems that you ae implying that vegans are zoophillic. Veganism ≠ beastiality.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

no, I'm making a reference to a shitpost that was made earlier this week where it brought attention to bestiality laws in conjunction with animal husbandry/breeding on farms.

the original image was a repost of a repost where someone made a catty comment about vegans.

the uproar was immense and caused the post to spill over to vegan communities where they clutched their pearls at the commentary that wasn't even made by anyone on Lemmy and proceeded to raid the shitpost community.

the comments were a disaster and the entire thread was quickly overrun by veganistic puritans who just wanted a flame war.

it was honestly the most hilarious thing I ever saw on here.

post looks to be deleted now though.