Christopher Ryan

“Before the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on cancer, there was the war on female sexual desire.…

— Christopher Ryan

“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next…

— Christopher Ryan

“Does all this frivolous sex make our species sound “animalistic”? It shouldn’t. The animal world is full of species that have sex…

— Christopher Ryan

“Institutionalized sharing of resources and sexuality spreads and minimizes risk, assures food won’t be wasted in a world without refrigeration, eliminates the…

— Christopher Ryan

“How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of…

— Christopher Ryan

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it…

— Christopher Ryan

“The anachronistic presumption that women have always bartered their sexual favors to individual men in return for help with child care, food,…

— 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

“Approximately eight hundred skeletons from the Dickson Mounds in the lower Illinois Valley have been analyzed. They reveal a clear picture of…

— Christopher Ryan

“sexual relations are kept strictly separate from Mosuo family relations. At night, Mosuo men are expected to sleep with their lovers. If…

— Christopher Ryan

“No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are…

— Christopher Ryan

“The French are much more comfortable with the idea that their affair partner is just that—an affair partner,” writes Pamela Druckerman in…

— 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

“For bonobos, a turbocharged sexuality utterly divorced from reproduction is a central feature of social interaction and group cohesion. Anthropologist Marvin Harris…

— Christopher Ryan

“community ownership doesn’t work in large-scale societies where people operate in anonymity. In The Power of Scale, anthropologist John Bodley wrote: “The…

— Christopher Ryan

“Circumcision remains prevalent in the United States, though varying greatly by region, ranging from about 40 percent of newborns circumcised in western…

— Christopher Ryan

“Since the birth control pill affects the menstrual cycle, it’s not surprising that it may affect a woman’s patterns of attraction as…

— Christopher Ryan

“No animal spends more of its allotted time on Earth fussing over sex than Homo sapiens—not even the famously libidinous bonobo. Although…

— Christopher Ryan

“Morgan’s argument that prehistoric societies practiced group marriage (also known as the primal horde or omnigamy—the latter term apparently coined by French…

— 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

“We believe this sharing behavior extended to sex as well. A great deal of research from primatology, anthropology, anatomy, and psychology points…

— Christopher Ryan

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course.…

— 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

“Indications of spermatic firepower are evident in the differences between a man’s first spurts and his last. A human ejaculation typically consists…

— 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

“Nor do the females of our closest primate cousins offer much reason to believe the human female should be sexually reluctant due…

— 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

“What if economic security and guilt-free sexual friendships were easily available to almost all men and women, as they are in many…

— 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

“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins…

— Christopher Ryan

“It wasn’t until the mid-1500s that a Venetian professor by the name of Matteo Realdo Colombo, who had previously studied anatomy with…

— Christopher Ryan

“In a sky swarming with uncountable stars, clouds endlessly flowing, and planets wandering, always and forever there has been just one moon…

— Christopher Ryan

“Researchers have confirmed what porn producers already know: men tend to get turned on by images depicting an environment in which sperm…

— Christopher Ryan