Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

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The switch from our ancestors’ sexual “sharing is caring” mentality in their hunter-gatherer-tribes occurred once we started to settle down and farm our own food. Interesting? Yes. Weird? Hell yeah. But interesting nonetheless. Especially because there’s also scientific research to show our bodies have evolved for monogamy.

Similarly, since hunter-gatherers didn’t settle, they didn’t own much, neither possessions, nor “people” in the form oflong-term partners.Before we’d just eat whatever we find, and thus naturally have a high variety of foods and nutrients. But once we started mass producing the same few things, we took a toll on our health. The APA was the only major organization of health professionals to see no ethical problem with the torture program. Sentence-Summary: Sex at Dawnchallenges conventional views on sex by diving deep into our ancestors’ sexual history and the rise of monogamy, thus prompting us to rethink our understanding of what sex and relationships should really feel and be like. Those who had more land, or a bigger farm, were more prosperous. The tendency to try and own as much as possible brought out greed and jealousy in humans. Will future sex even involve other people? Or will human sexuality continue to drift toward interaction with virtual partners?

The only way tomake sure was to get a woman to stay with him, which ended up in public scrutiny of women who had sex with different partners, violence against women and, of course, marriage. Lesson 2: Women want sex just as much as men, but they are conditioned to play it down.

I also suggest you read the summary of this book first, because the topic is very controversial. It’s worth investigating a bit, before taking the plunge. Who would I recommend the Sex At Dawn summary to? Sex at Dawn argues against monogamy, and the person who I heard about it from, also does. I’m at the other end of the spectrum, which makes reading this uncomfortable for me, but that also means I’m learning.

Sadly, we’ve gotten to a point where a lot of women comply. Lesson 3: Our bodies are made forsexual competition. Because of men’s high testosterone levels and their (especially today) often competitive behavior around women, the message we receive in public and the media is that women are prudes and less hungry for sex. Have you ever considered that you are most likely to read books whose message you already agree with? For example, The 4-Hour Workweekwas right what I wanted to hear, and I’m assuming that’s a big part of the reason why I read it in the first place.Love for your spouse, no matter how profound and sincere, will probably not eliminate your innate yearning for erotic novelty. Interestingly, when asked to describe their arousal, the majority of the women in the study played it down. Further proof that our society encourages women to be less sexual and that the expectationis for them to be prudish.