“After all, we know that the foraging societies in which human beings evolved were small-scale, highly egalitarian groups who shared almost everything. There is a remarkable consistency to how immediate return foragers live—wherever they are.* The !Kung San of Botswana… — 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
