“Unlike the penis, the clitoris’s only job is sensation. Same biological origins-different functions.” It takes less energy to just leave them there than to actively suppress them -and evolution is as lazy as it can get away with-so both males and females have nipples.

Nipples on females are vital to the survival of almost all mammal species, including humans (though a handful of old mammals, such as the platypus, don’t have nipples, and instead just leak milk from their abdomens), so evolution built nipples in right at the very beginning of our fetal development. “Homology is also why both brother and sister will have nipples. And why would men’s and women’s genitals be different in this way? If you’re a medieval anatomist, steeped in a sexual ethic of purity, it’s because shame.”

“The reasoning went like this: Women’s genitals are tucked away between their legs, as if they wanted to be hidden, whereas male genitals face forward, for all to see. “It turns out what matters most is not the parts you are made of or how they are organized, but how you feel about those parts.” “We’re all made of the same parts, but in each of us, those parts are organized in a unique way that changes over our life span.” And the sensitivity of each component varies from person to person.” and their divorce papers.”Īccording to their “dual control model,” the sexual response mechanism in our brains consists of a pair of universal components-a sexual accelerator and sexual brakes-and those components respond to broad categories of sexual stimulations, including genital sensations, visual stimulation, and emotional context.

Trying to understand sex by looking at behavior is like trying to understand love by looking at a couple’s wedding portrait. “But if you really want to understand human sexuality, behavior alone won’t get you there. For a long, long time in Western science and medicine, women’s sexuality was viewed as Men’s Sexuality Lite-basically the same but not quite as good.” The frustrating reality is we’ve been lied to-not deliberately, it’s no one’s fault, but still. Most Important Keywords, Sentences, Quotes:

Meta-Emotions: The Ultimate Sex-Positive Context.

Cultural Context: A Sex-Positive Life in a Sex-Negative World.

Emotional Context: Sex in a Monkey Brain.

Context: And The “One Ring” (to Rule Them All) In Your Emotional Brain.

The Dual Control Model: Your Sexual Personality.

Come As You Are is divided into four major themes and a total of 9 chapters :

Come as you are book review