Genes are the privilege that dare not speak its name.
Aug 252023
Mating
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
—Goethe
Aug 012023
Our species owes its continued survival to the endowment effect.
Apr 052023
Domestic sentiment is impossible to portray effectively in art, because it is universal, deeply felt, and always the same.
Feb 012023
A woman is apt to confuse a man’s reluctance to marry with his reluctance to marry her.
Jan 042023
Principles of Evolutionary Biology
1. It can be explained by natural selection.
2. If it cannot be explained by natural selection, it can be explained by sexual selection.
Dec 022022
What makes a marriage is less common interests than complementary vices.
Nov 242022
One flesh, in many marriages, is no mere metaphor: the vitality of husband and wife mix, and one waxes as the other wanes.
May 242022
What do women want? Men who need not be told what women want.
Jan 272022
Girls are wiser about sex than boys, and far wiser than men.
Dec 032021
Men marry for looks, and women for money — it’s too easy to kid yourself about the rest.