Book

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Diamond, Jared · 1997

Sequence ladder

Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.

Themethe body's metabolismthe refrigerator emptyingbiparental investmentlactation energy budgetreciprocitywithheld attentionmarriage dissatisfactionbeautiful and overlooked

Context1997lived_experience

What this book knows

Human sexuality's quirks — concealed ovulation, recreational sex, male parental investment — make sense only through evolutionary logic.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

desireembodimentintimacy

desire

Each man owns several phallocarp models, varying in size, ornamentation, and angle of erection, selecting one each day according to his mood.
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Andy asks the customer to place a hand on the relevant muscle on Andy's body — pedagogically useful, but Andy also enjoys the overwhelming attention.
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embodiment

A nursing mother's daily energy budget exceeds that of most men with even a moderately active lifestyle, topped only by marathon runners in training.
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intimacy

She told me, 'My husband never buys me presents' — a quiet revelation about what partners do and do not give each other.
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Wives were bought, sold, and discarded without their consent — a stark measure of how asymmetrically intimacy can be distributed between sexes.
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Illuminates

5 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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