Episode #1081
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
Books mentioned
Sex at Dawn
Mentioned by Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying · at 01:18:21
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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, former evolutionary biology professors, discuss applying evolutionary frameworks to sex, gender, attraction, relationships, and social behavior. The episode examines consent and #MeToo, pornography, gender identity, contraception, mate choice, monogamy and polyamory, while also considering how digital media and cultural narratives shape modern attitudes and relationships.
What they talked about
- Evolutionary biology perspective on sex and gender
- Male and female as universal biological categories
- Concealed ovulation in human females
- Male reproductive strategies and investment
- Critique of the Me Too movement's excesses
- Affirmative consent and courtship dynamics
- Pornography as 'sex autism' for young people
- Jordan Peterson's Vice interview on workplace signaling
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