“Ah, women. What do they want?” asks GQ magazine on the cover of the February [1994] issue. The question has been on male minds at least since Valentine’s Day, one million B.C.
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Atelopus frogs pondering the universal mystery • Photo by Brian Gratwicke (CC BY 2.0)
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Lighting up your love life
Along the tidal rivers of Southeast Asia, thousands of male fireflies gather in trees at dusk and flash their bioluminescent lights in an attempt to attract the female of the species.
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It’s been 40 years now since Kinsey lit the fuse
When Alfred Kinsey’s “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” came out in 1948, I was 11 years old and just beginning a long fascination with the mystery of mysteries.
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Flights of cyber-fancy
It’s spring — officially, at least — and a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of…Cybersex.
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Who’s chasing whom?
Recently, there has been a spate of letters to Ann Landers from moms concerned about sexually aggressive girls pursuing their teenaged sons — little temptresses hanging out on the front stoop, or calling in the middle of the night, that sort of thing. Don’t these girls know, the mothers ask, that it’s a boy’s role to do the chasing?
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Ah, those Victorians
In the days before television replaced nature in the lives of children, parents told their offspring about the birds and the bees. Or so it is said.
Detail from “The Intervention of the Sabine Women” by Jacques-Louis David, 1799
Social behavior and genes
Here are two stories I read within an hour of each other — one an attitudinal survey of teenagers in Rhode Island, the other an anthropological study of the Yanomamo tribe of the jungles of Brazil and Venezuela. Is there a connection? You decide.
Is this really necessary? • Photo by Romi Yusardi on Unsplash
Life is simple without sex
Some years ago, the humorists James Thurber and E. B. White wrote a book called Is Sex Necessary? It was not an altogether frivolous question and any biologist can tell you the answer: No.