The Politics of Courtship  

Since at least antiquity, animals have been used to illustrate the “natural” reasons for human behavior in both the economic and sexual spheres. Our own follies and foibles are thereby projected onto the animal world, where they lead a colorful …



Of Mothers and Fathers  

It may seem like a bad joke, but radical feminists sound like nothing so much as the thinkers they denounce as misogynists. In her most recent book, Adrienne Rich speaks of women’s “‘maternal’ or ‘nurturant’ spirit” as opposed to “rapism …



Whatever Happened to Romantic Love?  

In his Three Essays on Sexuality, Freud summed up the views of two diverse cultures on love, his own and that of the ancient Greeks: The most striking distinction between the erotic life of antiquity and our own no doubt …