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How to Make Love Like a Caveman

Daniel Honan on September 3, 2011, 12:00 AM

What's the Big Idea?

If asked to imagine what prehistoric human sex was like, according to psychologist Christopher Ryan, most of us would conjure "the hackneyed image of the caveman, dragging a dazed woman by her hair with one hand, a club in the other..."

Ryan says this image is mistaken in every detail.

A much more likely picture of how it went down in prehistoric times was this: a caveman would quietly sit in the corner and watch another caveman have sex with a woman, patiently waiting his turn.

Apparently, prehistoric women were extraordinarily promiscuous, and like our primate ancestors, women are hard-wired to behave like chimps in the bedroom.

In his book, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origin of Modern Sexuality, Ryan offers a biological explanation for why we find monogamy so difficult today.

A male is interested in sex with one woman up until the point of orgasm, at which point he will immediately lose interest, fall asleep, or perhaps wonder off to find more action.

In other words, human males are, in important ways, sexually incompatible with human females, who are capable of multiple orgasms.

So what is the evolutionary advantage of this?

Take monogamy out of the equation, and the evolutionary logic becomes more evident. A woman can have multiple sexual partners. This may increase her chances of reproducing, and she needs to try it a lot to be successful. [Ancient Spartan women did this, contrary to the added infidelity fiction plot added to the film "300."] Compared to other animals, humans have an incredibly low rate of conception, based on the number of sexual acts we partake in. And so it is well that sex is so much fun for humans, because if that were not the case, we wouldn't have made it this far.

So just what does it mean to make love like a caveman? It means have a lot of sex, partaking in, as Ryan describes it, the "seven million years of primate promiscuity" that our ancestors so heartily embraced as a species. That's a lot of sex.

Watch Christopher Ryan explain the evolution of human sexuality here:

What's the Significance?

According to Ryan, if we took an honest look at our dysfunctional sexual lives today, this is what we would find: we are all victims of a well-intentioned Inquisition.

American society has responded to this crisis by inventing a 'marital-industrial complex' of couples therapy, "pharmaceutical hard-ons," sex advice columnists, and "creepy father-daughter purity cults.”

Viagra breaks sales records every year.

Pornography worldwide is a $100 billion business.

Ryan says we spend all of this money to compensate for a fundamental disconnect we have with our nature.

For instance, why is monogamy so difficult?

According to Ryan, we are biologically programmed against it.

It was not until the advent of agriculture that man developed a notion of private property, and had reason to feel jealous of a promiscuous mate. Culture invented monogamy, and with it marriage, cheating, and a sense of shame that surrounds our sexual selves.

Ryan is anything but a home-wrecker. His book offers no prescriptions for curing our disconnect with nature. What he does recommend, however, is that we lose this sense of shame we have when we feel or act certain ways that contradict our culture, but which are in perfect harmony with our sexual nature.

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Adding Sex to Literary Classics? Remember This?_Fornicating with Mr Darcy_2004

By Catherine Keenan January 10, 2004

Arielle Eckstut, 33, literary agent

Not long after her extraordinary discovery of the lost sex scenes of Jane Austen, Arielle Eckstut went on radio to discuss her find. She was joined by the president of the Jane Austen Society of North America, and a mysterious academic called Dr Elfrida Drummond. Both listened, enthralled, as Eckstut recounted the moment when, in a "grand manor" in Britain, she was battling to open an old window and accidentally dislodged a small wooden box that had been hidden there for almost two centuries.

Inside was something beyond imagining: pages and pages covered in an exacting hand, detailing sex scenes between Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Charlotte and Mr Collins, a not entirely successful encounter between Knightley and Churchill from Emma, and more. Austen, an author famed for her control over the unsaid, had apparently said it all, in explicit detail, but the scenes had been excised by a hidebound editor. Austen's heated correspondence with him was in the box, too.

A devotee of Austen's books, Eckstut was astonished and delighted by her discovery, and published a book, Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen. It was introduced by "the most conservative of all modern Austen scholars", the Oxford-based Drummond, who announced that Eckstut had taken the accepted picture of the great author and turned it on its head. The radio station was inundated with calls from people wanting to find out more, and Eckstut was contacted by a doctoral student at Oxford University, who said he couldn't find Dr Drummond listed on the faculty records. Could Eckstut please supply him with contact details?

Very gently - though with some satisfaction - Eckstut pointed out to the young man that the radio program was broadcast on April 1. Dr Elfrida Drummond was, she explained, a fictitious character played by Eckstut's husband. Eckstut has indeed published a book of sex scenes between the most famous of Austen's characters, but it is a parody, "a loving homage".

Mr Darcy hadn't really "put his hands on Elizabeth's breasts and pushed up each soft globe so that both were near escaping the rim of her chemise". And Austen certainly didn't write about Charlotte dressing up in one of Lady Catherine de Bourgh's old dresses, giving Mr Collins a sound whipping while he crouched on all fours barking "I have been very, very bad! May I please have another!"

The doctoral student was by no means the first to be taken in. "A number of editors called and thought it was the real thing," says Eckstut. "I like to try and keep them going for a little while, saying, 'Oh my God, it was so amazing when I found it'."

Are they embarrassed when they find out the truth? "Absolutely," she laughs.

Eckstut, 33, is a literary agent and no stranger to writing about sex. Her husband, David Sterry, was a gigolo in his teens and wrote a memoir, Chicken. She has written about sex - and about being married to an ex-gigolo - for various publications.

The idea for this book came from a friend. "He just said, off the cuff, 'Wouldn't it be hysterical if someone found the lost sex scenes of Jane Austen?"' Eckstut had been a fan of Austen since she received a hard-bound copy of Emma for her 11th, or possibly 12th, birthday. "And I still have that copy, and I used it to do the research for the book."

When she decided not to go on to graduate work, she thought she put paid to her dream of writing about Austen: without a PhD, no one would take her seriously. "So when I heard this, I was like, 'This is my opportunity'."

She spent six months rereading all Austen's books, some of the literary criticism and a biography. "Then I got very, very detailed, and I started making vocabulary lists of words that I saw that were used over and over again. I studied the way she put together a sentence."

It was daunting trying to imitate one of the greatest prose stylists in the language. "And I don't make any claims to have done it in any way near what Jane Austen did. As someone who had read the works over and over again, I did a decent job capturing that tone, but I think that it doesn't come near her work."

Still, the president of the Jane Austen Society of North America has endorsed the book as "wickedly funny". Not so other Austen fans, who have been outraged by the idea of an actual sex scene between Lizzy Bennet and Mr Darcy. Even Andrew Davies, famed for injecting sex into the classics, stopped short of that in his BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Just having Colin Firth emerge from the water in a clinging shirt was enough to cause palpitations in Austen's female fans across the globe.

"There's a lot of older ladies who read her as romance reading. And I think that sector across the world just thinks it's the most disgusting thing," Eckstut says.

She defends it as a homage to Austen's wit. "There's a rich tradition in English literature, from Pope to Swift up through the ages, where parody takes people's characters and turns them on their head."

A.S. Byatt had no truck with this line of argument, however, and condemned the book on BBC radio as intrusive, crass, "very, very third rate", and an insult to the imagination of readers. In a tone of patrician disdain, she intoned: "If you were a really good writer, you'd invent your own characters, and your own world, and your own scenes. I think it's the piggybacking I don't like. It's parasitical. It's like being a flea."

"Wow," Eckstut responded. "Good parodies have always made people angry." Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen, by Arielle Eckstut, is published by Canongate, $24.95.

"There's a lot of older ladies who read [Austen] as romance reading. And I think [they] just think it's the most disgusting thing."

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Russian punk band found guilty of hooliganism, sentenced to two years By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout

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Three members of Pussy Riot -- a Russian punk band and feminist collective that mocked Russian president Vladamir Putin during a "punk prayer" in a Moscow cathedral--have been found guilty of hooliganism and sentenced to two years in jail

Judge Marina Syrova announced the verdict from a district court in central Moscow, about two miles from the Christ the Saviour Cathedral where the guerrilla group performed its "flash" stunt.

The band members--Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30--were arrested on March 3, several weeks after the performance, and charged with "hooliganism." They've been in jail ever since.

Their trial drew enormous international interest, sparking catcalls from international free-speech advocates and spawning dozens of protests. Some of those were reported on Twitter during the verdict and sentencing, involving an impromptu musical concert and some protests in public areas in Moscow and London.

Madonna, Bjork, Paul McCartney and Courtney Love were among a long list of musicians to come out in support of Pussy Riot, calling on the Russian government to set the band members free. Last week in Berlin, more than 400 people joined a protest led by electro-singer Peaches.

[Slideshow: Russian feminist punk band on trial]

"In one of the most extravagant displays," the Associated Press said, "Reykjavik Mayor Jon Gnarr rode through the streets of the Icelandic capital in a Gay Pride parade ... dressed like a band member--wearing a bright pink dress and matching balaclava--while lip-synching to one of Pussy Riot's songs."

What started as "a punk-infused political prank," London's Independent said, "has rapidly snowballed into one of the most notorious court cases in post-Soviet Russian history."

Five members of the group, which formed in 2011, were arrested in January after a video of a Putin-baiting performance in Moscow's Red Square circulated online. They were detained for several hours by police, fined and released, NPR said.

But the 10-member Pussy Riot, inspired by the American "riot grrrl" movement and bands like Bikini Kill, vowed more protest performances.

Pussy Riot's stunt at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox church, was a response, they said, to Patriarch Kirill's public support of Putin in the build-up to Russia's presidential election. Putin won a third term as president in March.

"Holy Mother, send Putin packing!" the group sang.

The Guardian called the trial, which began on July 30, "worse than Soviet era."

"By the end of the first week of Pussy Riot's trial," the Guardian's Miriam Elder wrote last week, "everyone in the shabby Moscow courthouse was tired. Guards, armed with submachine guns, grabbed journalists and threw them out of the room at will. The judge, perched in front of a shabby Russian flag, refused to look at the defense. And the police dog--a 100 [pound] black Rottweiler--no longer sat in the corner she had occupied since the start of Russia's trial of the year, but barked and foamed at the mouth as if she were in search of blood."

Lawyers for the women complained during the trial that the trio were being starved and tortured in prison. Two threatened to go on a hunger strike after they were initially jailed.

"Their treatment has caused deep disquiet among many Russians, who feel the women are--to coin a phrase from the 1967 trial of members of the Rolling Stones--butterflies being broken on a wheel," the BBC's Daniel Sandford wrote.

Syrova was subjected to unspecified threats during the trial, Russian authorities announced on Thursday--assigning bodyguards to protect her before and after she announced the verdict.

Several Russian pop stars, though, questioned the outpouring of support for Pussy Riot.

"What is so great about Pussy Riot that all these international stars support them?" Russian singer Valeria wrote on her website, according to Reuters. "They must be saying this because someone ordered them to."

"Art and politics are inseparable for us," the band said in an interview with the online newspaper Gazeta.ru in February. "We try to make political art. Performances and their rehearsals are our job. Life in Pussy Riot takes a lot of time."