The Moral Code of Chinese Sex Workers
A researcher immersed herself in the "sisterhood" of China’s female sex trade—and came away with an appreciation of its rules of conduct.
The Moral Code of Chinese Sex Workers
Sex
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Nature’s Most Creative Copulators
Why have humans taken mammalian sex to a whole new level?
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The Sexual Allure of Simplicity
Is the return to a simple life a “new” way to advertise our good qualities? An evolutionary perspective says yes.
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When Did Sex Become Fun?
Sexual reproduction has been around for 2 billion years. But when did sex for pleasure arise? And how much did penises have to do with it?
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Between Male and Female
Can television shows like Orange Is the New Black and Faking It push forensic anthropologists—and the rest of us—to rethink our categories of biological sex?
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Labor Pains and Helpless Infants: Eve or Evolution? (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post, we discussed two explanations for difficult childbirth and helpless babies: the Fall and the obstetrical dilemma (OD) hypothesis. Both have their weaknesses. Let’s consider another evolutionary-minded explanation, apart from the OD. For humans, the birth process begins at the same time that pregnancy reaches a critical metabolic threshold. This suggests there is a connection between the two. As a fetus develops and …