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Book: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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  1. Christopher Ryan _ Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric

    Poverty is a social status.
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  2. Christopher Ryan _ Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric

    In 1276, Peter of Spain was elected Pope John XXI, but he died just nine months later when the ceiling of his library suspiciously collapsed on him as he slept.
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  3. Christopher Ryan _ Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric

    Indications of spermatic firepower are evident in the differences between a man's first spurts and his last. A human ejaculation typically consists of anywhere from three to nine spurts. Researchers who somehow managed to capture "split ejaculates" for analysis found that the first spurts contain chemicals that protect against various kinds of chemical attack. What sort of chemical attack? Aside from leucocytes and antigens present in a woman's reproductive tract {more on that later}, they protect the sperm from the chemicals in the latter spurts of other men's ejaculate. These final spurts contain a spermicidal substance that slows the advance of any latecomers. In other words, competing sperm from other men seems to be anticipated in the chemistry of men's semen, both in the early spurts {protective} and in the later spurts {attacking}.
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  4. Christopher Ryan _ Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric

    As attentive readers may have noted, the standard narrative of heterosexual interaction boils down to prostitution: a woman exchanges her sexual services for access to resources. Maybe mythic resonance explains part of the huge box-office appeal of a film like Pretty Woman, where Richard Gere's character trades access to his wealth in exchange for what Julia Roberts's character has to offer {she plays a hooker with a heart of gold, if you missed it}. Please note that what she's got to offer is limited to the aforementioned heart of gold, a smile as big as Texas, a pair of long, lovely legs, and the solemn promise that they'll open only for him from now on. The genius of Pretty Woman lies in making explicit what's been implicit in hundreds of films and books. According to this theory, women have evolved to unthinkingly and unashamedly exchange erotic pleasure for access to a man's wealth, protection, status, and other treasures likely to benefit her and her children.
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