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From the Ted Talk by Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?

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Now, this makes some people uncomfortable, and so I always need to take a moment in these tkals to say, listen, I'm saying our ancestors were promiscuous, but I'm not saying they were having sex with strangers. There were no strangers. Right? In a hunter-gatherer band, there are no strangers. You've known these people your entire life. So I'm saying, yes, there were overlapping sexual roeahnpilstis, that our ancestors probably had several different sexual relationships going on at any given mnmeot in their adult lives. But I'm not saying they were having sex with strangers. I'm not saying that they didn't love the ppeloe they were having sex with. And I'm not saying there was no pair-bonding going on. I'm just saying it wasn't sexually exclusive.

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Now, this makes some people uncomfortable, and so I always need to take a moment in these _____ to say, listen, I'm saying our ancestors were promiscuous, but I'm not saying they were having sex with strangers. There were no strangers. Right? In a hunter-gatherer band, there are no strangers. You've known these people your entire life. So I'm saying, yes, there were overlapping sexual _____________, that our ancestors probably had several different sexual relationships going on at any given ______ in their adult lives. But I'm not saying they were having sex with strangers. I'm not saying that they didn't love the ______ they were having sex with. And I'm not saying there was no pair-bonding going on. I'm just saying it wasn't sexually exclusive.

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  1. relationships
  2. moment
  3. talks
  4. people

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Now, this makes some people uncomfortable, and so I always need to take a moment in these talks to say, listen, I'm saying our ancestors were promiscuous, but I'm not saying they were having sex with strangers. There were no strangers. Right? In a hunter-gatherer band, there are no strangers. You've known these people your entire life. So I'm saying, yes, there were overlapping sexual relationships, that our ancestors probably had several different sexual relationships going on at any given moment in their adult lives. But I'm not saying they were having sex with strangers. I'm not saying that they didn't love the people they were having sex with. And I'm not saying there was no pair-bonding going on. I'm just saying it wasn't sexually exclusive.

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