I always liked sex first thing in the morning, but today was going to be something special. I wanted it to be something that I could never forget long after Lionel was gone. I said, "Ok, we might as well make some rules right now.

For example, the anthropologist Haviland, in his textbook Cultural Anthropology , states that an “important characteristic of the food-foraging [hunther-gatherer] society is its egalitarianism.” [142] He acknowledges that the two sexes may have had different status in such societies, but claims that “status differences by themselves do not imply any necessary inequality”, and that in “traditional food-foraging societies, nothing necessitated special deference of women to men.” [143] If you...