“Baby, I love you like a lion loves his kill." Surely, a less romantic description of marriage has never been written.” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband-wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“A 2005 survey of 12,000 adolescents found that those who had pledged to remain abstinent until marriage were more likely to have… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“The president and his wife were visiting a commercial chicken farm in the 1920s. During the tour, the first lady asked the… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“If the independent, isolated nuclear family unit is, in fact, the structure into which human beings most naturally configure themselves, why do… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Since the birth control pill affects the menstrual cycle, it’s not surprising that it may affect a woman’s patterns of attraction as… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Morgan’s argument that prehistoric societies practiced group marriage (also known as the primal horde or omnigamy—the latter term apparently coined by French… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“What constitutes misuse of the universe? This question can be answered in one word: greed…. Greed constitutes the most grievous wrong. LAURENTI MAGESA, African… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“human population growth mushroomed as quality of life plummeted. The shift to agriculture, wrote author Jared Diamond, is a “catastrophe from which we have… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“As attentive readers may have noted, the standard narrative of heterosexual interaction boils down to prostitution: a woman exchanges her sexual services for access… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“The sexually insatiable woman,” declared a terrified Donald Symons, “is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“[Man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story: increased famine,… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.”10 This is a curious notion of productivity—at… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“A fire is never sated by any amount of logs, nor the ocean by rivers that flow into it; death cannot be sated by… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“When you can’t block people’s access to food and shelter, and you can’t stop them from leaving, how can you control them? The ubiquitous… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. “While we in the West glorify male dominance and… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
“If a species has cojones grandes, you can bet that males have frequent ejaculations with females who sleep around. Where the females save it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
