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In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times, designed to make each other miserable."
Don't believe it. We aren't designed to make each other miserable. This view holds evolution responsible for the mismatch between our evolved predispositions and the post-agricultural socioeconomic world we find ourselves in. The assertion that human beings are naturally monogamous is not just a lie; it's a lie most We
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― Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
― Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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A Rose for Empathy
My pelvic girdle remained whole and intact, thank God.
What a grace, me still qualifying as a higher vertebrate in this ordered peck.
My paralysis diagnosed only from the legs down.
The drunk driver and I had arrived at the same hospital at the same time.
He in worse shape than me.
I witnessed his violent death in that very moment before being rushed to surgery.
My sentence was mere paralysis.
And my largest sexual organ, the skin, and my most important, the brain, remained w
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