Acali

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The Acali expedition (or Acali experiment, informally referred to as the "Sex Raft") was a 1973 social experiment that aimed to investigate interpersonal relationships in conditions of limited space and social isolation. The experiment was organized by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés, who sought to prove that humans would ultimately turn to violence and aggression as part of human nature, especially in sexual conflicts, and deliberately engineered the experiment to encourage aggression and tension. Eleven participants—five men, including Genovés himself, and six women, a deliberate gender imbalance—embarked on a lengthy trip on a custom-built raft, the Acali, from Spain to Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean. However, during the experiment the participants were peaceful and cooperative, prompting Genovés to attempt to create conflict himself to prove his own theory. The raft left Las Palmas in the Canary Islands on 12 May 1973, and took 101 days to drift across the Atlantic Ocean and...

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