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Erotic thriller under the non-fiction titles of the summer Ira Panic, book journal, summer 2006 Of lust and urges What you always wanted to know about sex is one thing. What there is to know about sex is another. Sex through the lens of evolution, sex in the Middle Ages, sex in foreign cultures: new non-fiction books shed light on surprising and stimulating aspects of erotic encounters. The fact that sex and clear thinking are mutually exclusive has been rumored over the millennia, particularly by intellectuals with a limited erotic field of activity. It's one of those theses that just keeps repeating it doesn't make it any more correct. Just in time for the hottest time of the year, four new non-fiction books prove that you can also ponder the role of interpersonal relationships in more theoretical contexts with relish - none of them quickies, but who would seriously claim that faster sex is better than an intensive affair. The erotic thriller Christian Göldenboog has completely different problems. "Why sex?" is the short and provocative name of the new work by the author of "The Hole in the Whale. The Philosophy of Biology", and because Göldenboog is a gifted explainer, he doesn't leave us alone with the question that we are already dealing with Generations of ethicists and geneticists who have rubbed brain cells raw. Sure, sex is always and everywhere talked about: sex sells, sex is mostly fun, and if you don't have sex, you can sublimate wonderfully. But without sex (or the longing for it), there would be no Romeo and Juliet, or Madonna, or Michelangelo's David, there would be no human soul, no earthworm, no snail (world champion in carnal pleasures, by the way), and little at all except for a few parthenogenic species that are enough for themselves. But the answer: We have sex so that we can reproduce is no longer enough for the experts. Sexual intercourse is far more complicated and uneconomical than cell division, yet it's Mother Nature's favorite pastime. Why this has to be the case, why cloning would not even be a solution if you could control it, and what the whole thing ultimately has to do with tolerance, Göldenboog reveals to the astonished layman very clearly: as a cross-topic commentator and in discussions with famous scientists , including Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Kim Nasmyth and Wolf Reik. He also lets the legendary evolutionary geneticist John Maynard Smith (1920 - 2003) come into his own again, and all this with the usual speed and eloquence. "Why sex?" is the erotic thriller among the non-fiction titles of the summer.
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