Posts tagged with  " bonobos "

Any Animal Whatever – Darwinian Building Blocks of Morality in Monkeys and Apes

October 12, 2005:

by Jessica C. Flack and Frans B.M. de Waal. Journal of Consciousness Studies. To what degree has biology influenced and shaped the development of moral systems? One way to determine the extent to which human moral systems might be the product of natural selection is to explore behaviour in other species that is analogous and […]

The prehistory of sex : four million years of human sexual culture

January 1, 1996:

by Timothy Taylor. Taylor suggests that sexual tastes, prejudices, knowledge and politics not only lie deep in our evolutionary heritage, but also in many instances have actually directed fundamental biological adaptations

Sacred Pleasure – Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body

November 28, 1995:

by Riane Eisler. In traditions that go back to the dawn of civilization, the female vulva was revered as the magical portal of life, possessed of the power of both physical regeneration and spiritual illumination and transformation. Far from being seen as a “dirty cunt,” woman’s pubic triangle was the sacred manifestation of creative sexual […]