The Sexual Allure of Simplicity
You have probably seen them at your local bar: the man with a beard, plaid shirt, and wool hat; the woman with an unbuttoned flannel over a T-shirt,…
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“Det biologiske spillet” – En samtale med Lena Trydal om kjønn, sex og kroppshår
Av Hilde Katrine Egeland Lena Trydal er en 22 år gammel kunstner fra Kristiansand. I 2016 har hun vært aktuell med … More
When Did Sex Become Fun?
There are multiple answers to the question of where we come from: early hominins, monkeys, primordial goo, or the Big Bang, to name a few. Today’s answer, though,…
Memes Brazilians are sharing about the Olympics
One of the stars of the Olympic games in Rio have been the crowd. It has attracted the attention of the foreign press (NYTimes, BBC), and particularly of…
Between Male and Female
Laverne Cox, the actress who plays Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, made television history by being the first openly transgender actress to…
The Ultimate Proletarian and the Neoliberal Condition
“Proletarian” has acquired many layers of meaning over the centuries, possibly in part because the many, historically changing situations of proletarians became more complex. Since the advent of…
Labor Pains and Helpless Infants: Eve or Evolution? (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post, we discussed two explanations for difficult childbirth and helpless babies: the Fall and the obstetrical dilemma (OD) hypothesis. Both have their weaknesses.…
Sexualkunde in der Schule: Wenn Bienchen ins Leben helfen
Wie macht man Sexualkundeunterricht richtig? Eine Frage, die auch in China vermehrt diskutiert wird. Im Netz berichten Lehrer und Schüler aus eigener Erfahrung. Sexualkunde als…
Labor Pains and Helpless Infants: Eve or Evolution? (Part I)
Before Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge and shared it with Adam, being human was apparently hunky-dory. However, after Earth’s first two people disobeyed their creator, He…
Skeleton Sex Pots
The Moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of Peru from roughly A.D. 100 to A.D. 800. They produced beautiful ceramic vessels; hundreds…
Surprise! Semen Is Required
Reproduction seems so obvious to us now. Even if we don’t know the details, we know about the birds and the bees. For humans and an overwhelming number…
When Sperm Compete, Nature’s Call Leads to Bigger … Testicles
[In humans, the testes] are from an inch and a half to two inches long, about an inch and a quarter from the anterior to the posterior border,…
The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out
When the South African Thonga peoples first saw Europeans kissing in 1890, their reaction was disgust at such gross behavior. The same thing happened 100 years later for…
Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp
When is the end of fieldwork? (Photo:Merlijn Hoek CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When is it that fieldwork finishes? Thanks to social media, the separation between being in the fieldsite…
En sejr for verdens sexarbejdere
(Dele er gengivet fra Politiken.dk) Kritikken er haglet ned over Amnesty International (AI), siden organisationen sidste tirsdag besluttede at anbefale regeringer over hele verden at afkriminalisere …
The Sexual Lives of Others
The sexual lives of others. It may seem a new and tantalizing topic for an ethnography, yet this particular genre has a long history in anthropology. In the…
Da sexkrigen blev global
Blogbilleder: Auto-byline: Christian Groes-Green, ph.d., adjunkt, antrop…
Regeringen dropper forbud mod købesex: Er tiden moden til at lytte til prostitutionsforskningen?
Auto-byline: Christian Groes-Green, ph.d., adjunkt, antropolog og kønsforsker, Roskilde Universitet, Roskilde Universitet A…