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Recommended. - Choice The Domesticated Penis is a study of the anatomical distinctiveness of the genitals of the human male and diverse cultural attitudes toward them and their symbolism. This is scholarship at its liveliest: a colorful, knowledgeable romp through history and across cultures and species, to explore how the penis we know and (mostly) love today developed its characteristic shape, size, physiology, and behavior. The core argument is evolutionary: ancient women knew what they wanted, and what they wanted was smooth, substantial, long-lasting penetration. Male anatomy evolved to match female desire. - Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Assiduously avoiding tired gender stereotypes and naive evolutionary reasoning, and written in clear and sparkling prose, Cormier's and Jones's book advances the debate on the evolution of human sexuality. - Sarah S. Richardson, author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome Professor Cormier and Professor Jones remind us that there is perhaps no topic where cultural bias comes so glaringly into play as human sexuality. -Times Higher Education

Recommended. CHOICE The Domesticated Penis is a study of the anatomical distinctiveness of the genitals of the human male and diverse cultural attitudes toward them and their symbolism. This is scholarship at its liveliest: a colorful, knowledgeable romp through history and across cultures and species, to explore how the penis we know and (mostly) love today developed its characteristic shape, size, physiology, and behavior. The core argument is evolutionary: ancient women knew what they wanted, and what they wanted was smooth, substantial, long-lasting penetration. Male anatomy evolved to match female desire. Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

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Loretta A. Cormier is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She specializes in cultural anthropology, primatology, languages, and medical anthropology, and is the author of The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild Primate Malaria and Kinship with Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia. Sharyn R. Jones is an associate professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. She specializes in archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, human ecology, and gender studies. Her work has ranged from the study of Fijian cannibalism to the analysis of bones from the recently discovered Amelia Earhart site in Micronesia. She is the author of Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations and coeditor of Behaviour Behind Bones: The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity.

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