Reddit reviews Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

> my success rate shot up once ... I wasn't really caring about my sex life anymore

The less you care, the more you get. This is a truth. Once you internalize it, you start seeing results. But it is also counter-intuitive. I see many posts in TRP asserting that sex is not (or should not) be the most important thing in life. This is correct, as a matter of strategy. But many TRPers miss that it is not factually correct. Sex is the most important thing in man's life. In fact, it has been found that males are hard-wired to prioritize sex even over food.

So, viewing it from the evolutionary perspective, it seems like a paradox: if caring lass about sex will get you more, it would be evolutionary advantageous for men to not crave sex in the first place - which is of course not the case.

The reason for this seeming paradox, is that, somewhere along history (read Agricultural Revolution), there was a discontinuity. What Dr Leonard Shlain referred to as the Female Sexual Veto, or what I call The Female Coup d' etat. Men were programmed to have such a voracious sex drive because during the evolutionary times sex was, basically, free-for-all. And this was overturned by women.

What this all comes down to, as regards our sexual strategy, is that there is a discrepancy between "truth" and "effectiveness", in my humble opinion. Not unlike the discrepancy between "truth" and "effectiveness" in women's sexual strategy: for example, by convincing themselves that they "truly love" a man, they are in position to take advantage of him (his resources). It's not true that women "truly love", it's effective, though.

Likewise, it is more effective for men to believe that "things are like that and always have been, sex was never free", while it is not true. The more oblivious you are of the "free sex" alternative, the more effective you are fighting in the current sexual landscape.

(Note that I'm not claiming that the prehistoric free sex model is necessarily reproducible in today's society. But the discussion about "what went wrong" can give us valuable insights.)

-Adam

(Edit for clarity)

I first read about the cooked meat/increased brain size theory in this book (not that this author claimed the idea, just for additional context for those that might want to read it): http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Time-Power-Sexuality-Evolution/dp/0142004677/

I've read there is an evolutionary reason to eat the placenta, something to do with replacing nutrients consumed by pregnancy and childbirth. Don't remember the exact details. It was in this book;

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Time-Power-Sexuality-Evolution/dp/0142004677/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Basically women realized semen caused them to not mentruate. This explains much of what you're looking for.

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Time-Power-Sexuality-Evolution/dp/0142004677

The book Sex, Time and Power gets into this and the types of ways women shaped human evolution. Such a good read and it really changes your perspective on history.