Lust in Paradise

For most men in long-term sexually monogamous relationships, a steady decrease in libido is inevitable, regardless of the particular woman in their lives. That’s right. The sexually-monogamous husband of the hottest woman on earth will start to lose interest at a certain point. Uma, it’s not your fault!

You want an inconvenient truth? Try this one: human beings are clearly evolved for sex lives featuring multiple simultaneous sexual relationships.

Now that the PA primary has failed to end the kamakazi Clinton campaign, it seems that unlimited ego will once again prevail over the common good (speaking of the common good of the Democratic party). This situation reminds us of something very interesting we learned while researching hunter/gatherer politics: those who desperately want to be leaders are automatically disqualified.

Even sexperts have their doubts. We try to help.

Just for the sake of argument, let’s say you’ve got an average-sized head. And let’s agree that you spend an average amount of time outdoors. And the skies above you have an average number of birds flying about.

How many times, in an average lifetime, should you expect to be shat upon by birds?

The headline reads, "Over One-third Of American Football Players Had Sexual Relations With Men, Study Claims."

The hook repeats that astounding claim, only slightly stepping back from the headline by admitting we're not talking about all football players, but former high-school jocks: "A study of former high-school American Football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men."

Paul McCartney once noted that “some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.” “What’s wrong with that?” he asked. What’s wrong with that? Plenty.

The current hullabaloo about Obama’s preacher and the issue of racial identity in America reminded me of the day a few years back when a Spanish friend called me with a strange and urgent question: “Do you understand black people?”

I was interviewed last night by a journalist looking for a new angle on this Spitzer mess. She wanted to know about prostitution in prehistory. I told her there probably were no prostitutes in the Stone Age. How could there be? There was no money and sex was likely far less restricted than it is today.

But then I got to thinking.

An astute reader asks, "If your book is about the origins of human sexuality 'before agriculture and writing,' how did you develop your basic thesis? Without written records, what are your theories based on?"

Good question.

Some commonly-accepted truths in Evolutionary Psychology just don't hold water.