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Sex, Time, and Power

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by Leonard Shlain


  circumcision and

  control of women by; see also bride-barter

  hunting and sexual drive of

  masturbation by

  mother-son love and

  orgasm of

  posthumous legacies and

  postpubescent

  sexual foreplay and

  sexual goals of

  see also anima-animus duality; relationships

  Menaker, Abraham

  Menaker, Walter

  menarche

  anovulatory cycles and

  cultural rituals and

  iron and

  libido in

  myelination of brain and

  sexual dimorphism and

  see also puberty

  menopause

  circumcision and

  crone life phase and

  Grandmother Theory of

  HRT and

  increased libido in

  onset of

  physiological changes in

  in primates

  menorrhagia

  menstruation

  anemia and

  anovulatory cycles in

  bipedalism and

  blood and iron loss in

  after breast-feeding

  cancer and

  culture-nature distinction and

  endometriosis and

  fat reserves and

  free will and

  hormonal changes in

  in hunter-gatherer societies

  hygienic problems of

  infections and

  iron homeostasis in

  libido in

  linguistic and cultural correlations with

  lunar cycles and

  men’s attitudes toward

  men’s fear of

  in nonhumans

  odor and

  ovulation and

  paramenstrum and

  physiological changes in

  predation and

  psychological component of

  self-esteem and

  sense of time and, see time

  sexual relations and

  synchronized, see synchronized menstruation

  testosterone and

  uterus in

  see also menarche

  Michelangelo

  Mill, John Stuart

  Miller, Geoffrey

  Milton, John

  misogyny

  in contemporary society

  culture-nature distinction and

  definition of

  in non-Western cultures

  puberty and

  testosterone and

  in Western culture

  see also patriarchy

  Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

  Mithin, Stephen

  Mitochondrial African Eve, see African Eve

  mitochondrial DNA

  Mittelschmerz

  Molecules of Emotion (Pert)

  monogamy

  monotheism

  Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

  Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico

  Morgan, Elaine

  Moro, Ernst

  Moro reflex

  Morris, Desmond

  Mother Nature (Hrdy)

  Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)

  Muhammad

  mutations

  behavioral responses to

  Creative Explosion and

  language as

  myelin

  Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus)

  mythology

  hermaphroditism in

  time in

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Naked Ape, The (Morris)

  National Nutritional Advisory Board

  natural selection

  fitness and

  free will and

  vegetarianism and

  and women’s capacity for sex

  see also sexual selection

  nature-vs.-nurture debate

  Navajo Indians

  Neanderthals

  neocortex

  neomammalian brain

  Newton, Isaac

  Nicholson, Paula

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Nightingale, Florence

  Nin, Anaïs

  nirvana

  Nolan, Steve

  Noonan, Katherine

  NPR

  nutrition, see diet

  “obstetrical dilemma”

  Odyssey (Homer)

  Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

  Oefner, Peter

  Ojibwa Indians

  On Human Nature (Wilson)

  orgasm

  bipedalism and

  breast-feeding and

  in childbirth

  circumcision and

  Coolidge Effect and

  Cuddles Theory of

  frustration and

  G spot and

  man-woman relationship and

  mate selection and

  men’s sexual goals and

  mistiming of

  multiple

  in nonhuman females

  Pole Ax Theory of

  romance and

  timing of

  uneven distribution of, among women

  Upsuck Theory of

  Origins Reconsidered (Leakey and Lewin)

  Ortega y Gasset, José

  Ortner, Sherry

  Osler, William

  ovaries

  ovulation

  hidden, see cryptic ovulation

  own-kill taboo

  oxygen

  iron’s affinity for

  oxytocin

  paleomammalian brain

  Pan paniscus, see bonobos

  Pan troglodytes, see chimpanzees

  paramenstrum

  Pascal, Blaise

  paternity

  awareness of

  bride-barter and

  fatherhood and

  in indigenous peoples

  manhood and

  partible

  personal responsibility and

  and power to name

  recognition of mortality and

  relationship between sexes and

  wisdom, knowledge and

  women’s knowledge of

  patriarchy

  definition of

  persistence of

  resentment of women and

  testosterone and

  see also misogyny

  Patton, George

  Paul, Saint

  Pauling, Linus

  Pavlov, Ivan

  pelvis, bipedal

  penis

  vulnerability of

  Perry, John

  Pert, Candace

  Peterson, Dale

  Pfeiffer, John

  pharynx

  pheromones

  photosynthesis

  Piaget, Jean

  pica syndrome

  Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni

  Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde)

  Pinker, Steven

  placenta

  Plains Indians

  Plato

  pleiotropism

  Pliny

  Plutarch

  Pole Ax Theory

  polyps

  pornography

  Potts, Malcolm

  Power, Camilla

  pregnancy:

  amino acids and

  birth control and

  fatty acids and

  hemorrhoids and

  in hunter-gatherer societies

  iron and

  length of

  lunar cycles and

  meat hunger in

  prolonged childhood and

  serial

  sex determination in

  Prehistory of the Mind, The (Mithin)

  premature ejaculation

  primates

  color vision in

  estrus in

  hominid

  hunting by

  infanticide by

  masturbation in

  menopause in

  menstruation in

>   monogamy in

  sexual dimorphism in

  social arrangements of

  stereoscopic vision in

  see also bonobos; chimpanzees; gorillas

  Profet, Margie

  progesterone

  Prometheus, myth of

  prostitution

  proteins

  “prudent mother hypothesis”

  psychic hermaphroditism

  puberty

  group play and

  initiation rites in

  masturbation in

  misogyny and

  myelination of brain and

  postpubescent males and

  sexual dimorphism and

  sexual identity and

  testosterone and

  see also menarche

  Pueblo Indians

  punctuated equilibrium

  Purifications (Empedocles)

  Quest for the Holy Grail, myth of

  rape

  as rare sexual strategy

  reason

  red blood cells

  life span of

  Redgrove, Peter

  Red Queen, The (Ridley)

  reductionism

  relationships:

  anima-animus duality and

  asymmetry of

  commitment and

  and control of women’s sexuality

  cooperation and

  courtship and

  cryptic ovulation and

  division of labor in

  evolutionary bottleneck and

  family and

  fatherhood and

  Homo sapiens’ metamorphosis as a species and

  incest taboo and

  language and

  love and

  male aggression and

  and male’s qualifications as mate

  marriage and

  menopause and

  orgasm and

  paternity and

  small talk and

  technology and

  see also anima-animus duality; men; misogyny; women

  religion:

  circumcision and

  homosexuality and

  see also superstition

  Rich, Adrienne

  Ridley, Matt

  Rilke, Rainer Maria

  Rodwell-Wilton, Sue

  romance

  Rosenberg, Karen

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  Rubinstein, Boris

  runaway selection

  language development and

  Russell, Bertrand

  Sahtouris, Elizabet

  Sanger, Margaret

  Santayana, George

  Sappho

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  satori

  Savanna Theory

  schizophrenia

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Schreiner, Olive

  science

  self, concept of

  self-awareness

  self-delusion

  death and

  humor and

  Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins)

  Selye, Hans

  semantics

  semiessential amino acids

  sentience

  Sentinel Behavior, Theory of

  sequential hermaphroditism

  Seven Tables of Creation, The

  sexual dimorphism

  during puberty

  synchronized menstruation and

  sexual selection

  baldness and

  development of language and

  fitness and

  see also natural selection

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaler, Nathaniel

  Sharanhua tribe

  Shekina, concept of

  Sherfey, Mary Jane

  Short, Roger

  Show-Off Theory

  Shuttle, Penelope

  Sibley, Charles

  siblingcide

  simultaneous hermaphroditism

  Siriono tribe

  Siskind, Janet

  Sisyphus, myth of

  Small, Meredith

  Smuts, Barbara

  Socrates

  Sophocles

  soul

  species

  speech, see language

  Spock, Benjamin

  Stanford, Craig

  Stein, Gertrude

  Strassman, Beverly

  stress

  subincision

  suicide

  Sung Ping Law

  superstition:

  afterlife and

  ancestor worship and

  anxiety and

  death and

  mortuary rites and

  self-deception and

  Susu tribe

  Suzuki, D. T.

  Swaab, Richard

  Swift, Jonathan

  symbiosis

  Symons, Donald

  Symposium, The (Plato)

  synchronized menstruation

  and selection of males

  sexual dimorphism and

  syntax

  tapeworm

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich

  technology

  man-woman relationship and

  Tennyson, Alfred

  testosterone

  anima-animus duality and

  baldness and

  embryonic sex determination in

  homosexuality and

  menstruation and

 

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