Sublime

Of course, gifting a daughter or sister not only signaled the conquering ruler’s superiority, it also had the advantage of turning the conquered into long-term clients, at least as long as the marriage lasted. Trying to avoid client status, four of the societies (Egypt, Hawai’i, Aztec, and Inca) eventually opted for royal incest.

Our bodies echo the same story. The human male has testicles far larger than any monogamous primate would ever need, hanging vulnerably outside the body where cooler temperatures help preserve stand-by sperm cells for multiple ejaculations. He also sports the longest, thickest penis found on any primate on the planet, as well as an embarrassing

In the case of mammals, if you compared the female, with her long gestation period, to the male, with his essentially limitless capacity to reproduce, it was clear that the pressures of selection would fall principally on the males. If some males enjoyed access to several females, others would necessarily have none. So this inequality between males

Até então, o que se conhecia como sexualidade não tinha existência própria. As relações sexuais dividiam-se entre as voltadas para a renovação das gerações e aquelas, mais erotizadas, voltadas para o prazer. E essa divisão coincidia matematicamente com aquela que separava as mulheres puras das impuras.

Une femme enceinte peut très facilement utiliser un bâton pour creuser ou une simple houe. Les mères étaient donc aussi capables que les pères de s'adonner à l'horticulture, ce qu'elles faisaient. De fait, dans ces sociétés, environ 80 % des aliments étaient produits par les femmes (bien entendu les hommes partaient encore chasser). Il est donc peu

La religion a longtemps tenté de freiner l’hypergamie féminine qui déséquilibrait les sociétés, car cela concentrait 80 % des femmes dans la main de 20 % des hommes.

In a sense, the Goddess too turned sideways into the light. She immolated herself like Sati—surviving demurely in India as a consort of male deities. She was exiled like the Shekinah, the feminine divine of Judaism. In our time, the Goddess has come roaring out of her hiding places—for it is also the nature of the feminine to roar—and we are