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The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. While we in the West glorify male dominance and competition, Sanday says, the Minangkabau glorify t...

Christopher Ryan

The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. While we in the West glorify male dominance and competition, Sanday says, the Minangkabau glorify t...

Indications of spermatic firepower are evident in the differences between a man’s first spurts and his last. A human ejaculation typically consists of anywhere from three to nine spurts. Researchers w...

Christopher Ryan

Indications of spermatic firepower are evident in the differences between a man’s first spurts and his last. A human ejaculation typically consists of anywhere from three to nine spurts. Researchers w...

About Author
Christopher Ryan (né Papazoglou; born 25 January 1950) is a British actor best known for his roles as Mike The Cool Person in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in the BBC comedy series Bottom, Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and as Edina Monsoon's ex-husband Marshall Turtle in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. He has also appeared as the McKendrick twins in One Foot in the Grave, and played Sontaran General Staal in Doctor Who in 2008.

Having no coercive power, leaders are simply those who are followed—individuals who have earned the respect of their companions. Such leaders do not—cannot—demand anyone’s obedience.

Christopher Ryan

Having no coercive power, leaders are simply those who are followed—individuals who have earned the respect of their companions. Such leaders do not—cannot—demand anyone’s obedience.

You Are What You EatTake food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself - as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by our cu...

Christopher Ryan

You Are What You EatTake food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself - as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by our cu...

Tags: culture, desire, disgust, food, perspective, taboos

Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.10 This is a curious notion of productivity—at once overtly political and yet presented innocently e...

Christopher Ryan

Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.10 This is a curious notion of productivity—at once overtly political and yet presented innocently e...

If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that neither the obscure tactics of vice nor the modesty of virtue could have escaped pub...

Christopher Ryan

If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that neither the obscure tactics of vice nor the modesty of virtue could have escaped pub...

Las pruebas —tanto físicas como circunstanciales— apuntan a una prehistoria humana en la que nuestros antepasados hacían muchísimo más el amor que la guerra.

Christopher Ryan

Las pruebas —tanto físicas como circunstanciales— apuntan a una prehistoria humana en la que nuestros antepasados hacían muchísimo más el amor que la guerra.

What if we didn’t all grow up hearing that true love is obsessive and possessive? What if, like the Mosuo, we revered the dignity and autonomy of those we loved? What if, in other words, sex, love, an...

Christopher Ryan

What if we didn’t all grow up hearing that true love is obsessive and possessive? What if, like the Mosuo, we revered the dignity and autonomy of those we loved? What if, in other words, sex, love, an...

How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of fire and brimstone failed to rid even the pries...

Christopher Ryan

How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of fire and brimstone failed to rid even the pries...

Forget what you’ve heard about human beings having descended from the apes. We didn’t descend from apes. We are apes.

Christopher Ryan

Forget what you’ve heard about human beings having descended from the apes. We didn’t descend from apes. We are apes.

No animal spends more of its allotted time on Earth fussing over sex than Homo sapiens—not even the famously libidinous bonobo. Although we and the bonobo both average well into the hundreds, if not t...

Christopher Ryan

No animal spends more of its allotted time on Earth fussing over sex than Homo sapiens—not even the famously libidinous bonobo. Although we and the bonobo both average well into the hundreds, if not t...

The sexually insatiable woman, declared a terrified Donald Symons, is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.10 Perhaps, but Ma...

Christopher Ryan

The sexually insatiable woman, declared a terrified Donald Symons, is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.10 Perhaps, but Ma...

When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or cancer. No anemia or common cold. No i...

Christopher Ryan

When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or cancer. No anemia or common cold. No i...

¿Por qué iba a ser nuestra maldad el bagaje de un pasado simiesco, y nuestra bondad, exclusivamente humana? ¿Por qué no hemos de buscar la continuidad con otros animales también para nuestros atributo...

Christopher Ryan

¿Por qué iba a ser nuestra maldad el bagaje de un pasado simiesco, y nuestra bondad, exclusivamente humana? ¿Por qué no hemos de buscar la continuidad con otros animales también para nuestros atributo...

Baby, I love you like a lion loves his kill. Surely, a less romantic description of marriage has never been written.

Christopher Ryan

Baby, I love you like a lion loves his kill. Surely, a less romantic description of marriage has never been written.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Christopher Ryan

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, coined the term meme to refer to a unit of information that can spread through a community via learning or imitation the way a favored gene is replicated t...

Christopher Ryan

Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, coined the term meme to refer to a unit of information that can spread through a community via learning or imitation the way a favored gene is replicated t...

The anachronistic presumption that women have always bartered their sexual favors to individual men in return for help with child care, food, protection, and the rest of it collapses upon contact with...

Christopher Ryan

The anachronistic presumption that women have always bartered their sexual favors to individual men in return for help with child care, food, protection, and the rest of it collapses upon contact with...

Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that the world’s most primitive people have...

Christopher Ryan

Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that the world’s most primitive people have...

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without. IMMANUEL KANT

Christopher Ryan

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without. IMMANUEL KANT