“A natural family.” Perhaps this easy acceptance between adults and unrelated children, the diffuse nurturing found in societies where children refer to all men as father and all women as mother, societies small and isolated enough to safely assume the… — 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 a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and… — 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
