The release date for the English version of 'Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality' by
Christopher Ryan is Jun 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
We've been informed since Darwin's time that sexual monogamy is innate in our species. Men and women originated in families where a man's protection and belongings were traded for a woman's loyalty and fertility, according to mainstream science, religious organizations, and cultural institutions. However, this story is coming apart. As infidelity and declining libido bring down even apparently strong relationships, the number of couples getting married is steadily declining as the divorce rate continues to rise.
How can the official story and reality be made to fit together? Renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá say it can't be. In this daring and fascinating book, they propose a radical alternative explanation for sex while disproving practically everything we "know" about it.
The main argument put out by Ryan and Jethá is that humans developed in egalitarian communities that shared resources like food, childcare, and often, partners for sex. By combining information from several fields such as anthropology, archeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the writers demonstrate how unnatural monogamy is. People have dealt with the same comfortable, intimate settings in remarkably varied ways throughout history. The writers reveal the long-standing origins of human sexuality while urging us to look forward to a happier future that is made possible by our intrinsic ability to love, cooperate, and give.
Ryan and Jethá demonstrate how our previous promiscuity haunts our issues with monogamy, sexual orientation, and family relationships with wit, wonder, and fun. They delve into the reasons why many middle-aged men risk everything for brief affairs with younger women, why long-term fidelity can be so difficult for so many, why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens, why homosexuality persists despite standard evolutionary logic, and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality.
Sex at Dawn offers a novel explanation of why we live and love the way we do, while brazenly upending unjustified presumptions and conclusions—all in the manner of the finest historical and scientific literature.