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One woman, who reported having had a lot of casual sex, said: “I don’t know that I’m capable of having great sex anymore without really caring about a partner. It would just be flat.” The identification of this component of optimal sexual experiences was not a big surprise. However, many of our colleagues and the laypeople with whom we discussed th

probably don’t let your wife evoke such tremors in you. There’s an evolutionary anthropologist named Helen Fisher who explains that lust is metabolically expensive. It’s hard to sustain after the evolutionary payoff: the kids. You become so focused on the incessant demands of daily life that you short-circuit any electric charge between you.

while 85 percent of children born to upper-class families are raised by both of their birth parents, only 30 percent of those born to working-class families are.

the originating prompt is still hypergamy. All of that may sound like I’m excusing men from the equation, I’m not. When men progressively become more aware of their sexual market value, the better their capacity develops to assess long term investment potential with women.

Because of private property, for the first time in the history of our species, paternity became a crucial concern.

Bank accounts are balancing while passions are fizzling out. Men are less macho while sex and violence continue to increase on TV and in the movies. Women are more in control of their economic destiny while they go in increasing numbers to therapists and doctors to cope with stress related dis-ease. Why is this happening?

Enfim, a modernidade parece querer dispensar o casamento e a família de sua função histórica básica: garantir a nossa sobrevivência.