Small point with regards to this one line: I do wonder about how the perpetuation of ideas about monogamy has shaped us. Sometimes I think the whole "free love" thing would be really cool, and I wonder how much of our jealousy and possessiveness is natural and how much cultural. Who knows. It's also interesting to note that there are far more asexual women than men. I remember reading a few years ago in Paul Ehrlich's Human Natures (a good read) that there has probably been little evolutionary pressure making women more prone to orgasm, as 'anecdotal evidence' attests. Hehehe.the story of the so-far elusive hunt for a Viagra-type aphrodisiac for women
Viagra and related drugs aren't 'aphrodisiacs' - they don't make you horny, they just make it really easy to get an erection.
Oooh, this might be tangential actually, but one thing that I think is really interesting - both academically, say, and personally - is the distinction between sexual attraction and romantic attraction, a distinction first really brought to my awareness by the online asexual community. I imagine that an uncritical conflation of the two - sexual and romantic attraction basically being considered the same thing - plays a large part in many of the love troubles we have.