Sex at Dawn

Slate.com, 21, 107

slaves, 14, 37, 118, 192, 254

Sledge, Percy, 146

sleep, 176, 208, 296, 346n

Small, Meredith, 96, 116, 257, 261, 266

smallpox, 206, 207, 207

smell, 262, 275, 298-99, 345n

Smith, Adam, 166, 177, 328n-29n

Smith, David Livingstone, 158, 186, 332n

Soccer Tribe, The (Morris), 93

social behavior, 83-88

social Darwinists, 35-36

societies, map of, 89

Society without Fathers or Husbands, A(Cai Hua), 129 Sociobiology(Wilson), 36, 37 Socio-Erotic Exchanges (S.E.Ex.), 93-98, 138-39 Socrates, 163

Some, Malidoma Patrice, 105-6, 128 Song of Myself(Whitman), 271 soul, feminine, 271-79 South Pacific, 96, 263, 321n, 344n soy products, 237, 242 Spears, Britney, 284

Speculum Doctrinale(Vincent of Beauvais), 121-22 Spencer, Herbert, 35

sperm, 12, 53, 227-30, 234-41, 252, 264-67

sperm competition, 220-23, 225, 228-32, 236, 240, 242, 243, 259, 264, 265, 338n-41n

copulation calls and, 257, 258

copulatory plug and, 234

among great apes, 230 monogamy and, 228, 239 sperm count, 237 Sponsel, Leslie, 193, 196-97 Sprague, Joey, 289 Squire, Susan, 300, 304

standard narrative, 7-8, 11, 15, 25, 34-35, 46-60, 64, 149, 223, 266, 300

assumptions of, 99, 137, 142 of evolutionary psychology, 38-39, 48-53 extended sexual receptivity and concealed ovulation in, 48, 58-60 female libido in, 38-39, 47-58 female orgasm in, 262-63

male parental investment in, 7, 13, 26, 35, 48, 49, 51-55, 126, 128, 322n

paternity certainty in, 48, 55-58, 124-37, 142 sexual economics and, 48-51

sexual jealousy in, 35, 48, 55-58, 92, 142

testicles and, 227

war between the sexes in, 269-70

Stanford, Craig, 67

starvation, 164-65, 173, 203, 204

status, 52

of bonobos, 71

of children, 148

female, 9, 14, 57, 71, 132

male, 38, 49, 50, 55, 65-66, 99, 101, 257, 265

Sting, 147

Stone Age Economics (Sahlins), 162-63 straight men, 276-77 erotic plasticity and, 272, 273 stress, 72, 208-10, 296, 336n, 346n stroke, 162, 210 Sudan, 193

suicide, 210, 282 Sullivan, Andrew, 306-7 Sullivan, Ed, 86

sun/moon relation, 311-12, 312, 347n surrogate mothers, 107 survival of the fittest, 35 Sussman, Robert, 188 swans, 136, 137

“Sweaty T-shirt Experiment,” 275, 346n Swedes, 144 swingers, 307-8 Sydney University, 238

Symons, Donald, 51, 57-58, 118-19, 126, 229, 247, 295, 338n

female orgasm as viewed by, 263-64 on sexual novelty, 295-96 syphilis, 130, 206, 207, 250 Tahiti, 95

Tai, 67, 70

Tannahill, Reay, 252

Tanzania, 187-88, 323n

Taylor, Timothy, 14, 175, 316n, 341n

Technology of Orgasm, The (Maines), 247-48, 340n

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference (2007), 183-84

teeth, 173, 205, 215

television, 5, 32, 41, 143, 288, 317n

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 30

testicles, 10, 12, 220, 222-27, 224, 230, 234, 236-43, 266, 340n

testify, 234