The sexual life of man took its present shape a long time ago, at a time when a man as a species gradually had been separated from the rest of the animal world. This popular science book describes (in Polish) how was born the human form of sexuality. The author reaches for the latest knowledge from many disciplines of science: evolutionary biology, social anthropology, archeology and history, and psychology to describe how human sexuality was born. He reviews main concepts in this field, critically analyzes them and in some cases, suggests a new perspective on key issues.
The book may be recognized as a Desmond Morris "The Naked Ape" 45 years after.
Jerzy Adam Kowalski
Homo eroticus
How human sexuality had being rising
What the book tells us?
The book shows the origins of human sexuality, its evolution in biology and society. Against the background of an overall vision of this evolution it also discusses a number of interesting details.
Looking for origins of human sexuality, the author goes back to our knowledge about the life of primitive man. It is extremely difficult to reconstruct this knowledge. The study on found skeletal remains of ancient creatures provide scanty information, so we support a cautious comparisons with animal life, human ancestors and the life of primitive people. In the first case, we refer generally to the analogy of our closest animal cousins - apes, in the second case, the reference point is today's traditional tribes.
A new look
Despite huge knowledge we have about the sexual life of man, a lot of things is still an intriguing mystery, or the existing explanations are not entirely convincing. The author therefore proposes a new perspective on some key issues, which will probably cause much controversy.
He supposed, for example, that contrary to established views, it's not the men threw the first body hair, to avoid overheating in pursuit of deer, but first made this woman. Nudity in them replacing the old genital swelling, and then spread to further areas of the body and became a sexual signal in attracting partners.