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Dr. Carin Bondar Interview

The Mating Grounds Podcast

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The Power of Sex in the Animal World

The sexual strategies and reproductive structures that we see in the animal kingdom basically dictate how males and females react to each other, which then dictates how populations and societies form and evolve. It's not like this woman is coming on to talk about kinky sex,. But on another level, let's take a look at how sex impacts everything about our lives. And I guess, you know, a really important point that I like to bring up is the impact of coercion, sexual coercion, as we call in the biology world. In animals that are able to rape each other, where males are able to forcibly have sex with females, social structures are entirely different than in animals where that's not possible.

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