Human Sexes

HUMAN SEXES
by DESMOND MORRIS
(1996)

Summary by abro
Desmond Morris', a well know Biologist (Zoologist), a documentary on Human Sexes: Male and Female, how they are different from each other, how different cultures and civilizations behave with each other, how different relations effect on male and female ...


1. DIFFERENT BUT EQUAL
Body and Brain
-Male and Female Different PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY
Physically:
-Male possesses approx. 30% more muscles (as helpful in Hunting in legend)
-Female possesses more smooth, soft and round skin body (as helpful for child baring)
-Both properties also arouses opposite sex to each other.
Mentally:
-Male possesses Visualizer brain. Good normally when working silently on (even deep) strategies.
-And Female is Good Verbally, she can solve matters when talks.


2. LANGUAGE OF THE SEXES
Masculine/Feminine Qualities
Things which make more himself/herself
Feminine Qualities
-Long Neck
-Small Feet
-Red (and possibly big) Lips
-Big Butt
-Long Hair
-EYES ***
Masculine Qualities
-Face Shaving (?)
-Circumcision
-Tatooing
-Bravery type works/Risk Taking


3. PATTERNS OF LOVE
Marriages/Pairing
-Are we by nature monogamous or polygamous?
we have discovered around 200 different tribal societies
man has allowed to have more than one wife but interestingly
most of them they have chose to only single wife. So even we have freedom to be polygamous but we remains essentially
monogamous species.
-Polyandry ... very rare (4 out of 849 cultures)
example of one tribe of India
one woman merry a man she is supposed of all his brothers
woman face heavy duty, for man it'll never be shured which one is father of children.
-Solitary (Remote) Sex
-Masturbation


4. PASSAGES OF LIFE
Different Human Ceremonies
(Human Gatherings)
-Food Sharing
-Birthday (boy dominate on girls)
-Being Adult
-Wedding
-Friendship gathering
-Games
-Funeral


5. THE MATERNAL DILEMMA
Mother ...
-Boys are preferred on Girls
boy inherits the family name and continue the family traditions.



6. THE GENDER WARS
-Mother-goddess
-Veil: It is always assumed that wearing the veil (burqa) is Muslim in origin but this isn't the case, it was originally introduced by ancient Assyrian, the way of labeling high status females. The custom was later taken over by the male dominating Muslim countries.
-Woman Circumcision
-Grail of Chastity
-Honey-Moon
-Woman Liberation ... and woman losing her Femininity.
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Summary by: abro

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