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Sex at Dawn

the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Feb 19, 2015Виктор_Кэди rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Unsurprisingly, there's been plenty of fawning praise for this feel-good pop-evo-psych manifesto, but I strongly suggest that a bit of critical perspective is in order. The word "pseudoscience" gets tossed about a bit too casually, but this surely qualifies. Essentially, it serves well to lend a sort of science-y sounding ad hoc for the polyamory crowd—which is fine—but let's not confuse it for anything more than a 400-page Dan Savage article with endnotes. Seriously, if you can read at a high-school level, just go pick up something by E. O. Wilson or whomever, sleep around to your heart's content, but leave the snake-oil science out of it. This is the sort of cultural artifact people will be embarrassed to have on their shelves within five years. Anyhow, didn't Desmond Morris already write this, like, 50 years ago?