We are not disgust sensitive, moderns are disgust tolerant.The implicit framing here is that the disgust sensitivity in the examples given is pathologically elevated, when in actual fact we're in a hypernovel ecology of low disease low death etc.
Modern populations have been permitted to relax into an excessive tolerance and numbness to that which is instinctually and teleologically disgusting because of the unprecedented lack of disease and death.
Pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust are thought of as three domains within disgust psychology. The recent elevation in pathogen disgust from the pandemic has seemingly also elevated sexual and moral disgust. This is good for fans of the Nature Order.
Nature, via disease, used to do the 'negative regulation' on undesirables that will have to fall into the hands of man if order is to be restored.
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