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I haven't read the Red Queen in years and years, so it's hard for me to say. Best books on human sexuality I've read are The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons and Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems by Alan Dixson. Both are super seinctific and not really written for a non-academic reader. Although it's seriously flawed, I still recommend Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha as a good introduction to much of the research that suggests monogamy is culturally constructed for both men and women. It's an easy and interesting read and makes a lot of important points that need to be heard, even if the authors' understanding of the research was apparently a little sloppy/ideological. After a lot of research, I've become convinced that the theories of evolutionary imperatives that women evolved to be monogamous and men evolved to be promiscuous is probably a bunch of bunk. Men and women DO biologically differ in their sexualities (on average), anyone who is serious about the science notes that our sexualities are fluid and adaptable, and that includes the sexualities of women just as much as the men. I suppose I wasn't as impressed by the rat/monkey examples of female dominance simply because there are just as many counter-examples of rat/monkey species of males being even more dominant than humans. Examples from this particular species or that particular species, imo, doesn't mean a whole lot, even within mammals. Human sexuality is singular and unique in nature, for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being that we have something no other species has: culture.
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