Volume 26, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1980
Sociosexology
By Clifford Geertz
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by Donald Symons
Oxford University Press, 358 pp., $15.95
This is a book about the 'primary male-female differences in sexuality among humans,' in which the following things are not discussed: guilt, wonder, loss, self-regard, death, metaphor, justice, purity, intentionality, cowardice, hope, judgment, ideology, humor, obligation, despair, trust, malice, ritual, madness, forgiveness, sublimation, pity, ecstasy, obsession, discourse, and sentimentality. It could be only one thing, and it is. Sociobiology.
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