Note: This is the audio version of the video, which is available for paid subscribers here. The video features my narration in the beginning before we watch the video of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson discussing socially enforced monogamy.

Additional reading material here on The Science of Sex:

* Joe Duncan, Did Humans Evolve to Form Long-Term Relationships?

* Joe Duncan, Your Preferences on Casual Sex and Abortion May Have More to Do With Your Sexual Strategy Than Your Politics.

* Jaimie Arona Krems, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, and Martie Haselton, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, What really drives anti-abortion beliefs? Research suggests it's a matter of sexual strategies.

* Joe Duncan, The Surprising Science Behind Why Women Moan During Sex

External sources and reading material:

* Carlyn Beccia, Is the ‘Golden Penis Syndrome’ Destroying Dating for Young Women?

* Malcolm Potts, Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World (Amazon).

* James Prescott, The Origins of Love & Violence Summary

* James Prescott, Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence

* James Prescott, Love of violence, violence of love

* Dario Maestripieri Ph.D., The Seven Year Itch: Theories of Marriage, Divorce, and Love explains the Interbirth Interval and the anthropology of the 1970s and 1980s.

* Discussion of health issues related to the Interbirth Interval. Interbirth interval practices among reproductive age women in rural and Urban kebeles in Farta Woreda: Case-control study, by various authors.

* Short interbirth intervals lead to health problems in children. Short interbirth interval and associated factors among women with antecedent cesarean deliveries at a tertiary hospital, Southwestern Uganda, various authors.

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