Christopher Ryan

“So, is the human scrotum half-empty or half-full?”

— Christopher Ryan

“Poverty is a social status.”

— Christopher Ryan

“If fear is removed from jealousy, what’s left?”

— Christopher Ryan

“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT, JR.”

— Christopher Ryan

“Despite his genius, what Darwin didn't know about sex could fill volumes. This is one of them.”

— Christopher Ryan

“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”

— Christopher Ryan

“Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV. JERRY SEINFELD”

— Christopher Ryan

“Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.”

— Christopher Ryan

“Fear is certainly natural, and like any other kind of insecurity, jealousy is an expression of fear.”

— Christopher Ryan

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

— Christopher Ryan

“Monogamy is not found in any social, group-living primate except—if the standard narrative is to be believed—us.”

— Christopher Ryan

“A fire is never sated by any amount of logs, nor the ocean by rivers that flow into it; death cannot be…

— Christopher Ryan

“As far as we know, there is no corresponding taste among women for erotica featuring multiple overweight middle-aged ladies with cheap tattoos,…

— Christopher Ryan

“Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain aspects of our behavior and tendencies while seeking to eliminate those…

— Christopher Ryan

“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal…

— Christopher Ryan

One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws.…

— Christopher Ryan

“Love and lust are as different from each other as red wine and blue cheese, but because they can also complement one…

— Christopher Ryan

“Baby, I love you like a lion loves his kill." Surely, a less romantic description of marriage has never been written.”

— Christopher Ryan

“In 1276, Peter of Spain was elected Pope John XXI, but he died just nine months later when the ceiling of his…

— Christopher Ryan

“Some behaviors that seem normal to contemporary people (and which are therefore readily assumed to be universal) would quickly destroy many small-scale…

— Christopher Ryan

“Is it Rousseauian fantasy to assert that prehistory was not an unending nightmare? That human nature leans no more toward violence, selfishness,…

— Christopher Ryan

“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

You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life…

— Christopher Ryan

“Researchers have found that men with lower levels of testosterone are more than four times as likely to suffer from clinical depression,…

— Christopher Ryan

“We’re all members of one tribe or another—bonded by culture, family, religion, class, education, employment, team affiliation, or any number of other…

— Christopher Ryan

“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

“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story:…

— Christopher Ryan

“I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on…

— Christopher Ryan

“Though many strive to hide their human libidinousness from themselves and each other, being a force of nature, it breaks through. Lots…

— Christopher Ryan

“As a medical doctor, Kellogg claimed the moral authority to instruct parents on the proper sexual education of their children. If you’re…

— Christopher Ryan

“After all, we know that the foraging societies in which human beings evolved were small-scale, highly egalitarian groups who shared almost everything.…

— Christopher Ryan

“We have good news and bad news. The good news is that the dismal vision of human sexuality reflected in the standard…

— Christopher Ryan

“In gorillas’ winner-take-all approach to mating, males compete to see who gets all the booty, as it were. So, although an adult…

— Christopher Ryan

“We’ll show that human beings evolved in intimate groups where almost everything was shared—food, shelter, protection, child care, even sexual pleasure. We…

— Christopher Ryan

“If the independent, isolated nuclear family unit is, in fact, the structure into which human beings most naturally configure themselves, why do…

— Christopher Ryan

“the bigger the society is, the less functional shame becomes.”

— Christopher Ryan

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

— Christopher Ryan

“when familiar labels are applied, supporting evidence becomes far more visible than counter-evidence in a psychological process known as confirmation bias.”

— Christopher Ryan

“It bears repeating that the human penis is the longest and thickest of any primate’s—in both absolute and relative terms.”

— Christopher Ryan

“Having no coercive power, leaders are simply those who are followed—individuals who have earned the respect of their companions. Such “leaders” do…

— Christopher Ryan