Primitive promiscuity

Primitive promiscuity

Primitive promiscuity or original promiscuity, is the hypothesis that human race originally lived in a state of promiscuity. [Westermarck, chap. 3 p. 103-4] [Bachofen, "Das Mutterrecht", pp. xix-xx, 10] [Bachofen, "Antiquarische Briefe" pp.20-] [McLennan, Morgan, Lord Avebury, Giraud-Teulon, Lippert, Kohler, Post, Wilken, Kropotkin, Wilutzky] [Bloch, Iwan "Sexual Life of Our Time", pp. 188-194]

ee also

*Religious prostitution
*Hetaera
*People of Canela

Notes

References

*Westermarck, Edward [1891] (2003) " [http://books.google.com/books?id=ShU3N7_GaMYC History of Human Marriage Part 1] " Kessinger Publishing ISBN 0766146189

further readings:
*Miller, Gerrit S. Jr. (1931) " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5770(193112)6%3A4%3C379%3ATPBOHS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z The Primate Basis of Human Sexual Behavior] " The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Dec., 1931), pp. 379-410
*KELLY CHAKOV [http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/evol.htm NINETEEN CENTURY SOCIAL EVOLUTIONISM]
*Weston, Kath (1998) " [http://books.google.it/books?id=u3rJpB4F2yMC Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science] " ISBN 0415920434
*Lerner, Gerda " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740(198624)11%3A2%3C236%3ATOOPIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L The Origin of Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia] " Signs, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Winter, 1986), pp. 236-254
*Fortes, Meyer (2005) " [http://books.google.it/books?id=0Pq4JSC-JNMC Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan] " ISBN 0202308022 pp.7-8
*LERNER, GERDA (1986) [http://www.wordtrade.com/history/womenshistoryR.htm Women and History vol. 1: The Creation of Patriarchy] [http://books.google.it/books?id=Zc318kI-TPMC] ISBN-13: 978-0195039962

External links

*" [http://www.alternet.org/story/13648/ The Virtues of Promiscuity] " (2002) Sally Lehrman


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