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Sex, Time, and Power

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by Leonard Shlain


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  Illustration Credits

  Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910. Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York.

  René Magritte, Woman-Bottle, 1945. © 2003 c. Herscovici, Brussels/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. © Christie’s Images/Corbis.

  The Goddess Tlazolteotl Giving Birth to the Sun God. Aztec Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, D.C.

  Nude Study # 264 from Nude Body Nude by Howard Schatz (HarperCollins Publishers). © Schatz/Ornstein 2000.

  Georges Lacombe, Isis, 1895. Polychrome wood. Photo: C. Jean. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. © Réunion des Musées Nationaux /Art Resource, New York.

  Nat Farbman, Bushman Throwing His Spear at a Winded Gemsbok, Botswana, 1947. Nat Farbman/TimePix.

  Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1486. Uffizi, Florence, Italy. © Erich Lessing /Art Resource, New York.

  Leon-Maxime Faivre, Two Mothers (detail), 1888. Louvre, Paris, France. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski. © Réunion des Musées Nationaux /Art Resource, New York.

  Artist: Mark Reynolds.

  Knot # 108 from Body Knots by Howard Schatz (Rizzoli Publishers International). © Schatz/Ornstein 2000.

  Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, 1508. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France. © Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York.

  Edward Landseer, The Hunting of Chevy Chase, 1825–26. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.

  Pieter Bruegel, Return of the Hunters, 1565. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

  Edvard Munch, Puberty, 1894. © 2003 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. © National Gallery, Norway.

  René Magritte, Le Viol, 1934. The Menil Collection, Houston. 2003 c. Herscovici, Brussels/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

  An illustration by Florence Harrison of a poem by Tennyson from Guinevere and other poems, by Alfred Lord Tennyson; illustrated by Florence Harrison (London: Blackie and Son Ltd., 1912, EB Children’s Lit. PR5551 1912). Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

  Drawing by Mathieu Hunter.

  The Venus of Laussel. Paleolithic sculpture. Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France. © Scala/Art Resource, New York.

  Nat Farbman, Bushman Children Sitting Around Their Chief as He Acts Out a Story, Botswana, 1947. Nat Farbman/TimePix.

  Artist: Mark Reynolds.

  Knot # 91 from Body Knots by Howard Schatz (Rizzoli Publishers International). © Schatz/Ornstein 2000.

  Graphs designed by Robert Fox.

  Max Beckmann, The Night, 1918. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Walter Klein photographer, Düsseldorf. © 2003 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

  Kirsten Soderlind, In Dad’s Arms. © Kirsten Soderlind/Corbis.

  George Segal, Gay Liberation. © Kevin Fleming /Corbis. © George and Helen Segal Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

  Graph designed by Robert Fox.

  Graph designed by Robert Fox.

  Uli statue from New Ireland. © Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York.

  Artist: Mark Reynolds.

  Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895. Lithograph. © 2003 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Munch Museum (Andersen/de Jong).

  Scott Siedman, First Kiss, 1995 (di Rosa Reserve, Napa, California).

  Ferdinand Hodler, Night, 1890. Kunstmuseum, Bern.

  The “Chinese Horse.” Prehistoric cave painting. Lascaux Caves, Périgord, Dordogne, France. © Art Resource, New York.

  Xavier Mellery, Immortality. Musées Royaux des Beauz-Arts de Belgique.

  Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Saint Joseph and the Infant Christ. Norton Simon Museum.

  Dorothea Lange, First Born, Berkeley, 1952. © The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

  Mary Cassatt, Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt and His Son. © Philadelphia Museum of Art/Corbis.

  Pablo Picasso, Family on the Seashore. Musée Picasso, Paris, France. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. © Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York. Photo: R. G. Ojeda.

  Sydnie Michele, Baby Guru, © 1998.

  Edvard Munch, Separation, © 1896. Oil on canvas. Munch Museum, Oslo. © The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph: © Munch Museum (Andersen/de Jong).

  Jean Delville, The Love of Souls, 1900. Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels. Photograph: Mixed Media, Brussels.

  Index

  Aborigines

  abortion

  abstract thinking

  Aché tribe

  adolescence, see menarche; puberty

  adolescent subfertility

  African Eve

  afterbirth

>   afterlife

  Ahlquist, Jon

  AIDS epidemic

  Aiello, Leslie

  Alexander, Richard

  altruism

  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

  American Psychiatric Association

  Amini, Fari

  amino acids

  ancestor worship

  anemia

  effects of

  hookworm infection and

  menstruation and

  vegetarian diet and

  vitamin C and

  Angier, Natalie

  anima-animus duality

  as cultural behavior

  double helix and

  homosexuality and

  hormones and

  male-female relationship and

  in nonhumans

  rarity of rape and

  as sexual strategy

  small talk and

  testosterone and

  Antigone (Sophocles)

  anxiety

  death and

  superstition and

  Aquatic Ape Theory

  Aquinas, Saint Thomas

  Ardrey, Robert

  Aristophanes

  Aristotle

  art

  Creative Explosion in

  and fear of death

  homosexuality and

  Madonna theme in

  reductionism and

  ascorbic acid, see vitamin C

  Asperger syndrome

  Atwood, Margaret

  auditory constancy

  Augustine, Saint

  Australia, species extinction in

  Australopithecus afarensis

  autism

  Bacon, Francis

  Baker, Josephine

  Baker, Robin

  balanitis

  baldness

  brain and

  barter

  Batak tribe

  Batten, Mary

  beauty

  Beauvoir, Simone de

  Becker, Ernest

  Bellis, Mark

  Bellow, Saul

  Benedek, Therese

  Benshoof, L.

  Bernard, Claude

  Bettelheim, Bruno

  Bickerton, Derek

  Biogenetic Law

  bipedalism

  childbirth and

  evolution of

  hunting and

  lunar cycles and

  male genitalia and

  menstruation and

  orgasm and

  Pole Ax Theory of Orgasm and

  Sentinel Behavior Theory of

  birth control

  birth defects

  bisexuality

  Blackfoot Indians

  Blood, Bread, and Roses (Grahn)

  bloodletting practice

  Blood Relations (Knight)

  Bloom, Paul

  Boas, Franz

  Bodger, Joan

  bonobos (Pan paniscus)

  Bororo tribe

  Bowlby, John

  brain

  baldness and

  Broca’s area of

  cholesterol in

  evolution of enlarged

  Executive Function of

  and exercise of free will

  iron and development of

  language and

  of left-handed persons

  lipoproteins in

  metabolic demands of

  myelination of

  structure of

  triune

  breast-feeding

  “love hormone” and

  orgasm and

  Bribri Indians

  bride-barter

  culture and

  women as commodity in

  women’s power and

  Briffault, Robert

  Broca’s area

  Brooks, Mel

  Brown, Norman O.

  Brownmiller, Susan

  Bruner, Ann

  Buddha

  Buddhism

  Burley, Nancy

  Butler, Samuel

  caduceus

  calendars

  Calvin, John

  Calvin, William

  Camus, Albert

  Canetti, Elias

  cannibalism

  Cannon, Walter

  carbohydrates

  carbon dioxide

  “Carmina” (Horace)

  Carroll, Lewis

  Cassatt, Mary

  Cather, Willa

  cause-and-effect logic

  Cavilla-Sforza, Luigi Luca

  cellulite

  cervix

  chelation, process of

  childbirth

  bipedalism and

  as bottleneck in human evolution

  G spot and pain of

  iron depletion in

  orgasm in

  childhood, prolonged

  chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

  awareness of death in

  genes of

  grooming in

  homosexuality in

  hunting by

  language capacity of

  laughter in

  mating competition and

  mating patterns in

  menopause in

  menstruation in

  orgasm in

  self-awareness in

  chlorophyll

  cholesterol:

  in brain

  male sex drive and

  sex hormones and

  Chomsky, Noam

  Christiansen, Morton

  chromosomes

  X

  Y

  Chukchi tribe

  circadian rhythms

  circumcision

  fertility and

  and function of foreskin

  health benefits of

  male sexuality and

  orgasm and

  religion and

  Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)

  Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

  clitoris

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  collagen

  color-blindness

  Columbus, Christopher

  Comfort, Alex

  commerce

  commitment

  complete blood count (CBC)

  Confucius

  Congo tribe

  Congreve, William

  Conkey, Margaret

  Constitution, U.S.

  Coolidge Effect

  Corballis, Michael

  Cortés, Hernán

  cortisol

  cosmetics

  Cosmides, Leda

  courtship

  Crack in the Teacup, The (Bodger)

  Crawford, Michael

  Creative Explosion:

  death and

  language and

  mutation and

  synchronous development of

  Crick, Francis

  Cro-Magnons

  cryptic ovulation

  daddy-at-home theory of

  infanticide and

  jealousy and

  many fathers theory of

  mid-month pain and

  sexual bond and

  Cuddles Theory

  culture

  anima-animus duality and

  bride-barter practice and

  funerary practices and

  homosexuality and

  language and

  man-nature relationship and

  menarche and

  in social animals

  Curse, The (Delaney, Lupton, and Toth)

  daddy-at-home theory

  Daly, Martin

  Damasio, Antonio

  Darwin, Charles

  Dawkins, Richard

  Deacon, Terence

  death

  afterlife and

  ancestor worship and

  anxiety and

  awareness of

 

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