Lots of Sex, Please, We’re Humans
Are we really biologically coded to want it insatiably? April 2006
Edward Shorter is a historian who views the past as a background to, even the explanation of, the present. The past, and of itself, does not appear to have any intrinsic interest or value. Indeed, Shorter’s histories, whether his early work on the family or his history of women’s bodies, tend to leave me with a disconcerting feeling that not only does he not much like the…