“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that “the world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“[Man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race…sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer…” quote by Christopher Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/939/christopher-ryan-4309_joy_man-has-imagined-a-heaven-and-has-left-e_187069.jpg)
