{"id":44810,"date":"2014-02-21T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=44810"},"modified":"2014-02-21T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T11:41:36","slug":"christopher-ryan-are-we-designed-to-be-sexual-omnivores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=44810","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/christopher_ryan_are_we_designed_to_be_sexual_omnivores.html\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of agriculture, humans may actually have been quite promiscuous. Author Christopher Ryan walks us through the controversial evidence that human beings are sexual omnivores by nature, in hopes that a more nuanced understanding may put an end to discrimination, shame and the kind of unrealistic expectations that kill relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of agriculture, humans may actually have been quite promiscuous. Author Christopher Ryan walks us through the controversial evidence that human beings are sexual omnivores by nature, in hopes that a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122748,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122748","url_meta":{"origin":44810,"position":0},"title":"Keep Searching","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"24\/08\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Designed by Christopher David Ryan Original Article","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdryan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Searchin-01-CDRyan.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdryan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Searchin-01-CDRyan.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdryan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Searchin-01-CDRyan.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135288,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=135288","url_meta":{"origin":44810,"position":1},"title":"The Secrets of Other People&#8217;s Relationships","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"28\/12\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YEfjjor2Ew0 Those of us in relationships suffer from an ignorance of what other people\u2019s relationships are really like. 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