Science Will Not Allow Itself To Be Made Ludicrous…

Quoted from scholars of the Institute for Sex Research (the Kinsey Institute),

If we labeled all punishable sexual behavior as a sex offense, we would find ourselves in the ridiculous situation of having all of our male histories consist almost wholly of sex offenders, the remaining few being not only nonoffenders but nonconformists. The man who kisses a girl [sic] in defiance of her expressed wishes is committing a forced sexual relationship and is liable to an assault charge, but to solemnly label him a sex offender would be to reduce our study to a ludicrous level. 6

“Rather than “reduce [their] study to a ludicrous level,” which would be unthinkable, the honorable scientists chose to sanction as normative the male commitment to the use of force documented by their study”

(from “Men And Boys” in Pornography: Men Posessing Women, Dworkin )

Email with the Author

UPDATE:

I’ve had an email exchange with one of the author’s, Christopher Ryan. I emailed a contact email on the sexatdawn website asking to speak with Ms. Jetha, to perhaps interview her about the book and her role in writing it. I got an email back from Christopher Ryan telling me I was “angry” and speculating that that might be because I am young. Ha!

I continued to ask to speak with Ms. Jetha and he got very upset, telling me that ”Cacilda doesn’t do interviews because…English is her sixth language. She prefers that I handle media.”

So, Ms. Jetha can co-author a book in English but cannot defend it in English??? She can co-author a book in English but cannot be interviewed about the book? Cannot be an equal author in terms of media and publicity? It doesn’t add up.

-FuckSexAtDawn

 

Sex At Dawn Book Review Now Up

Sex At Dawn claims to “illuminate the true origins and nature of human sexuality…[and to] question the deepest assumptions brought to contemporary views of marriage, family structure, and sexuality.” As a person in a long term open relationship, I was excited and onboard when I picked up this book because it’s endorsed by Dan Savage and based on research of prehistoric cultures and animals. I was ready to learn about human sexuality free from harmful modern narratives. Instead, Sex At Dawn argues for non-monogamy with the very same cultural beliefs that got us trapped here in the first place. If modern monogamy is midnight on the human sexuality clock, Ryan and Jetha’s argument takes us back to 10pm–nowhere near dawn.

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Dear Ryan

Dear Christopher Ryan,

If you wake up one morning feeling down, emasculated, sub-human- you know, like a lady- you might try driving an expensive car rather than standing next to a strange women.

In 2009, John Vongas and Gad Saad demonstrated that “men’s testosterone levels rise subsequent to driving a Porsche.” Much the same as the evidence cited in your book that men’s testosterone levels rise when they stand next to novel women. You interpreted this to mean that men evolved to seek out, and often risk everything for, new and novel female sexual partners. Instead, Gad Saad believes this is cultural and that “endowing a man with a potent status symbol triggers an endocrinological response.”

Indeed, few people could believe that this is evidence that our prehistoric ancestors evolved to seek out new and novel automobiles or machinery. What does it say about humans, then, that men see women as status symbols- as property? What does it say that simply standing next to a woman seems to be interpreted by the male brain as “endowing” him with that status symbol?

Well, it says very little about evolution or the human brain, but it does reveal quite a lot about the brains of modern men, and about YOU.

This is all good news, though. Now, thanks to science and modern technology, women’s lack of constant bodily availability to any and all strange men will no longer be seen as a bitchy attempt at brain chemical emasculation. And you will be happier too, because you will finally be able to get inside of and control the objects of your affection without being charged with a crime. Thankfully, now, no woman has to be in your vicinity.

Frigid As Ever,

FuckSexAtDawn

A Bone to Pick

This blog is dedicated to taking a critical look at the book “Sex At Dawn: the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha.

In the next week I will be posting an in depth book review that rips apart their argument.

Many liberals are endorsing this book, most prominently Dan Savage, but many people have issues with this book, from Barbara King at Bookslut,

“Tone down the sex-differences-in-sexuality stuff. You end the book by urging couples to have that “difficult” conversation about males’ evolved need for sexual novelty. Even a social constructionist may admit girls and boys differ, but in a book centered on myth-debunking, why link women (but not men) with sexual loyalty?

* Mute the power-of-biology stuff too. If our current sexual behavior is culturally flexible, as you rightly note, it cannot also be “powerless against our prehistoric predilections.” To ask, “If the nuclear triad is so deeply embedded in our nature, why are fewer and fewer of us choosing to live that way?” makes as little sense as to ask why, if meat-eating and hunting marked our past, more and more of us are choosing to do neither now. “

even the liberal feminists over at Jezebel have a little bone to pick,

“Maybe monogamy goes against our nature, but I suspect this doesn’t matter nearly as much in a relationship as honesty and communication. No one, under any circumstances, needs to cheat – sex may be a driving force, but we are all more powerful than urges. Instead of promoting “tolerance,” which is dangerously close the the crap Hill is shilling, maybe we should focus on the “open discussion” part of the equation.”