Sex is legal, and selling stuff is legal, so how can it be illegal to sell sex?

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If I'm right about the near-future of war, our current drift will accelerate and take us right over the falls into a whole new world any day now.

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The Pirahã have no words for "I'm sorry." They can say, "I was bad," or some such, but do so rarely. The way to express penitence is not by words but by actions.

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My recent appearance on The Point, discussing current events (including slut shaming in politics).

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We've known for some time that bonobos (previously known as "pygmy chimpanzees") are among the most sexual of all living animals—besides of course, humans. Frans de Waal dubbed them the "make love, not war" species, since they seem to resolve the majority of conflicts through sexual activity

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Both "Dexter," the program, and Dexter, the character challenge us to join in, if we dare, for a journey along the razor's edge separating the cleansing execution of moral justice from the sticky evil that oozes from numbed slaughter-and, frankly, from the numbing depiction of killing.

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The New York Times asked us to chime in on the "open marriage" discussion provoked by Newt's ex.

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Santorum is on to something when he says that sex “keeps civilization going.†But he’s wrong to credit only heterosexual reproductive sex.

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The entire trajectory of emotional and intellectual growth in the Western mind seems to be a movement away from mystery, while indigenous people tend to see themselves moving ever closer to realms of mystery as they age. Primary Topic: …

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I'll be on a speaking tour in the US and Vancouver. Come say hello if you can. Primary Topic: …

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Men's testosterone levels drop when they spend time with kids. Does that mean we're evolved for marriage or that we're evolved to love and protect kids—anyone's kids? Primary Topic: …

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The first installment of my Big Think interview from a few weeks ago. This one's mostly about how relevant chimps and bonobos may be to human sexual evolution.

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The last part of the most in-depth interview I've given about Sex at Dawn.

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The fifth part of the most in-depth interview I've done about Sex at Dawn.

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The fourth part (of six) of the most in-depth interview I've given about Sex at Dawn.

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Part 3 (of 6) of the most in-depth interview I've given about Sex at Dawn.

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Part 2 (of 6) of the most in-depth interview I've given about Sex at Dawn.

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Of all the interviewers I've spoken with in the past year, none was more thorough and professional than Mark Leviton. But his in-depth interview got spiked by the magazine that commissioned it. So here you have it. (Part I)

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I've been filling in for Dan Savage this week, while he's on vacation.

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This seems a good opportunity for Cacilda and I to thank anyone reading this blog who sent a link to a friend, dropped a comment, and especially those of you who grabbed a copy of our book. We're beyond gratified at the response Sex at Dawn has received. At the top…

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To me, three types of ignorance/misunderstanding characterize the Weiner situation and others like it.

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People keep asking for my take on the recent response to Kanazawa's latest provocation. It boils down to "What took so long?"

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The slutwalk protests aim both to reclaim the word "slut" from those who use it to try to shame women for being openly sexual creatures and to redirect that shame to where it belongs: aimed squarely at men who feel justified in sexually abusing women.

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Imagine a high-profile expert stands before a distinguished audience and argues that Asians are warlike people. In support of his argument, he presents statistics from seven countries: Argentina, Poland, Ireland, Nigeria, Canada, Italy, and Russia

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Science writer John Horgan recently considered a big question—maybe the biggest question of all: Has civilization been a big mistake?

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