Sexual Rhythms in Relationships
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 11/09/2016

For centuries men have been trying to resolve the riddle of attraction. What makes us desire a particular individual from among a group? Is it looks, is it cultural expectations, or could it be something genetic in our makeup? 

In this week’s podcast Brett Newcomb and I are talking about the processes involved in physical attraction among people as well as the issues that seem to develop in relationships that impact their ability to endure. We begin by talking about what Harvard Sociobiologist Edward Wilson refers to as the breeding strategies of men and women.  

Dr. Wilson contends that women developed constant states of Estrus so that they would be fertile year round (not “seasonally”) this meant that men would have to stay around and protect and provide for the women who became pregnant in order to protect their investment in their progeny. From this pattern, Wilson believes that “nesting” and families evolved. When he discusses the strategies of males for breeding he talks about spreading their seed as widely and frequently as they could in order to maximize their chances of passing along their genes.