Sex at Dawn

intimacy

• Women who discovered husbands had cheated immediately packed and left 'because that's what you do'—not because they wanted to, just reading from a script.

  SD-001

• 'You French love only your own children; but we all love all the children of our tribe'—a chief's rebuke to a missionary's lesson on marital fidelity.

  SD-010

desire

• Men lay claim to particular women as lions lay claim to a kill—a proprietary creature advertising and defending an individually recognizable resource packet.

  SD-012

• The only consistent interest seen among general primate populations is an interest in novelty and variety—documented as a female preference more than any other characteristic.

  SD-008

embodiment

• The Aché distinguished four different kinds of fathers—those who put it in, mixed it, spilled it out, and provided the child's essence—over six hundred fathers claimed.

  SD-006

• Without sperm warfare during human evolution, sex dreams, masturbation, thrusting, and the whole of human culture would be fundamentally different.

  SD-005