A review by akaneshimoyoshi
Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain

Did not finish book. Stopped at 54%.

the beginning was really intriguing and brought up interesting points, but it quickly devolved to simplistic or unsupported arguments. i really tried to give it a chance since the topic was interesting, but i guess the back cover summary’s “awesome breadth of research” and “big brained homo sapiens” should have been a red flag. shlain is also a surgeon, so i’m not sure why he is writing a book on anthropology (with sufficient research it would have been fine, but that didn’t necessarily play out). i stopped at page 250/360 because it really got me when he brought in carl jungs concept of anima and animus and related it to gay, lesbian, same sex, and intersex theories. also the part about rape on page 220 was straight up incorrect. it started off interesting uo it was disappointing after that.