Medical textbooks treating various forms as a pathological condition. 
Literary sources, perhaps unpublished during their authors' lifetimes, including diaries and personal correspondence. Religious and philosophical texts recommending, condemning or debating the topic. Records of legislation indicating either encouragement or prohibition. There are a number of primary sources that can be collected across a wide variety of times and cultures, including the following: The resulting self-censorship and euphemistic forms translate today into a dearth of explicit and accurate evidence on which to base a history. For most of historic time writing has not been used by more than a small part of the total population of any society. Sexual speech-and by extension, writing-has been subject to varying standards of decorum since the beginning of history. įor example, a man trying to have sex with many women all while avoiding parental investment is not doing so because he wants to "increase his fitness", but because the psychological framework that evolved and thrived in the Pleistocene never went away. Instead, current behavior is probably the result of selective forces that occurred in the Pleistocene. The resultant sexual behavior adaptations are thus not an "attempt" on the part of the individual to maximize reproduction in a given situation – natural selection does not "see" into the future. Evolutionary biology shows that the human genotype, like that of all other organisms, is the result of those ancestors who reproduced with greater frequency than others. Modern explanations of the origins of human sexuality are based in evolutionary biology, and specifically the field of human behavioral ecology. While the views of Bachofen are not based on empirical evidence, they are important because of the impact they made on thinkers to come, especially in the field of cultural anthropology. Only upon the switch to male-enforced monogamy was paternity certainty possible, giving rise to patriarchy – the ultimate "apolloan" stage of humanity. This "aphroditic" stage was replaced by a matriarchal "demeteric" stage, which resulted from the mother being the only reliable way of establishing descendants. In his 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World Bachofen writes that in the beginning human sexuality was chaotic and promiscuous. Many authors, notably Lewis Henry Morgan and Friedrich Engels, were influenced by Bachofen, and criticized Bachofen's ideas on the subject, which were almost entirely drawn from a close reading of ancient mythology. 
The work of Swiss jurist Johann Bachofen made a major impact on the study of the history of sexuality. 1492), an interpretation of what happens inside the body during vaginal intercourse, by Leonardo da Vinci "Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman" (c.
0 kommentar(er)
