Christopher Ryan

“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

“What constitutes misuse of the universe? This question can be answered in one word: greed…. Greed constitutes the most grievous wrong. LAURENTI…

— Christopher Ryan

“human population growth mushroomed as quality of life plummeted. The shift to agriculture, wrote author Jared Diamond, is a “catastrophe from which…

— Christopher Ryan

“As attentive readers may have noted, the standard narrative of heterosexual interaction boils down to prostitution: a woman exchanges her sexual services…

— Christopher Ryan

“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart…

— Christopher Ryan

“The sexually insatiable woman,” declared a terrified Donald Symons, “is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism,…

— Christopher Ryan

“[Man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that…

— Christopher Ryan

“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else,…

— 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

“Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.”10 This is a curious notion…

— 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

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

— Christopher Ryan

“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?…

— Christopher Ryan

“The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. “While we in the West glorify male…

— Christopher Ryan

“If a species has cojones grandes, you can bet that males have frequent ejaculations with females who sleep around. Where the females…

— Christopher Ryan

“And yet, despite repeated assurances that women aren't particularly sexual creatures, in cultures around the world men have gone to extraordinary lengths…

— 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

“A natural family.” Perhaps this easy acceptance between adults and unrelated children, the diffuse nurturing found in societies where children refer to…

— Christopher Ryan

“We’re being misled and misinformed by an unfounded yet constantly repeated mantra about the naturalness of wedded bliss, female sexual reticence, and…

— Christopher Ryan

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

— Christopher Ryan

“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact…

— Christopher Ryan

“Poverty is a social status.”

— Christopher Ryan

“Once our ancestors began cultivating land for food, they were running on a wheel, but never fast enough. More land provides more…

— Christopher Ryan

“One of the most important hopes we have for this book is to provoke the sorts of conversations that make it easier…

— Christopher Ryan

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

— Christopher Ryan