Sex at Dawn The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

the guy who wrote sex at dawn was explaining it to me is that there's up you you pat like what is ...

I did the audiobook of civilized today which I really enjoyed that process I'm thinking I might do a 10th anniversary director's cut audiobook of Sex at Dawn.

did you do the audio version no who did

I don't think that Christopher Ryan's 'Sex at Dawn' is perfectly accurate.

I think I caught I think I read this in the book Sex at Dawn was this like indigenous story about a man who was trying to have a baby. And then he found out that he couldn't. And then he found out that he couldn't because he couldn't to be able to do anything like what was this like indigenous group in sub is somewhere in South America where like and this is we're talking about an older set of beliefs, but like their their attitude was like it's not children aren't made by like one father.

Like once you're you're pregnant, you sleep with other guys who have skills that you like, and they all contribute to the kid. And the pragmatic result of this is that like, well, this woman says that like, well, these four men are who made that baby and they're all responsible for taking care of the kids.

Sex at Dawn

There's a couple, I mean, there's a book called "Sex at Dawn" that I read many, many years ago that's about the evolution of human sexuality and how some of it's been, like how different cultures have looked at things like what makes someone a parent.

which is a really interesting book focuses a lot on one of like the polyandrous species of monkeys bonobos but ignores that there are a lot of monogamous species as well

There's a couple, I mean, there's a book called Sex at Dawn that I read many, many years ago that's about the evolution of human sexuality and how some of it's been, like how different cultures have looked at things like what makes someone a parent.

If we're talking about this book Sex at Dawn which is a really interesting book focuses a lot on one of like the polyandrous species of monkeys bonobos but ignores that there are a lot of monogamous species as well.

I've read Sex at Dawn.

I recommend this book to anybody.

This book Sex at Dawn when I first started reading it, I listen I will listen to it a lot, but I didn't want to hear it at first I shut it off after the beginning because some of it to me felt kind of anti-christian a little bit right and I'm not judging you or anything, but that was the experience that I had but then I thought to myself, well, do you're not gonna you know you how you can't be an open person if you don't listen to stuff and if you don't and then I listened to it and I loved it and I didn't think like it was anti-christian I thought it was it made me just realize that there's a lot of things in our path in our past and in our lives and in our society and in our evolution that have formed some of the ways that we live now there aren't even choices that I've made but they're just kind of templates that I've kind of fallen into or or that the river of my existences has passed through these certain banks that have always been there and it made me just start to think about things more And I don't feel any different at the end, but I do feel like I have just more questions and I'm more able to listen to new things and if this was a fascinating read for me, man It was really really cool dude it it opened me up in more ways than I thought.

There's a lot of stuff about masturbation in there.

It's sort of an expansion of some of the things that we talked about in in Sex at Dawn.

I'm reading this...I'm listening to this book still called 'Sex at Dawn' and when I first heard it, man, they were talking like a lot of anti-Christian stuff and things like this and some of it I didn't want to listen to because it hurts some of the fabric that's in me.

and they're saying that you know we're not supposed to be monogamous and where it's not in our nature but in my heart or somewhere inside of me there's this little picture of this family I always wish I had.

I'm afraid to think oh what if I'm not gonna end up in a monogamous relationship or what if I'll never get married because it's not what's true to could be true to my core what I don't want to think those things.

it just opened up so much more I'd just like to know your thoughts about monogamy

it's definitely something that I struggle with I do struggle with heavily with...with desires mostly of you know of like you know I don't struggle with desire to love someone else you know if I'm in love I don't struggle with the desire to love someone else I just struggle with you know sexual desires.

Chris Ryan, sex writer in his book Sex at Dawn.

Chris Ryan, sex writer in his book Sex at Dawn.

This is Dr. Christopher Ryan, a world traveler, author of *Sex at Dawn* and the host of the podcast you heard earlier.