Sergei Morozov - Sex and Rank. Modern Mans Ancient Programs

Sergei Morozov

SEX AND RANK:

MODERN MANS ANCIENT PROGRAMS

2012

Translated by David Gillespie

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Sergei Morozov is an eminent Russian socio-biologist and the author of four books. He has written nonfiction articles and materials on evolutionary psychology, social philosophy, sociology and the philosophy of history. Sergei Morozovs work examines various aspects of modern society, but his innovative approach lies in the emphasis he puts on the biological foundations of society, its biological base and the state of its biological parameters. In accordance with the socio-biological idea, changes in social life instigate changes in the biological base of society, and vice versa. Thus social change one way or another, through a plethora of intermediate links, impacts on the biological parameters of people. By enumerating such functions one can discover the past, investigate the present and speculate on the future. Sergei Morozovs research has a practical application, it is topical and concerns the life of each individual.

English blog http://sexandrank.blogspot.com/

Russian blog http://ms1970.livejournal.com

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The book Sex and Rank thoroughly corresponds to its title, as it is about sex and how sexual relations are predetermined by programs of rank which have come down to modern man from his distant ancestors.

Sex and Rank relates how partners are chosen, how different types of partner interact, how with age preferences shift in the choice of partner and relationships. Sex and Rank proposes a radically different approach to the relationships between the sexes in modern society based on the ancient programs that emerged in the process of evolution and the struggle of groups for resources. Sex and Rank in the third instance relates where this behavior came from, in the second describes how these types of behavior works and firstly how they are to be utilized in the modern world.

The book describes in plain language the most complex aspects of the nature of human relationships. It will be of interest and comprehensible to anyone wishing to make sense of the relationships between men and women, from teenagers to specialists.

The book does not consider such questions as why are two sexes necessary? or why did we lose our body hair? Sex and Rank is a practical book. It can be used as a self-help manual (as DIY) in which you can always find yourself and those around you, and which can be used as an effective way of constructing your own life.

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Translated by David Gillespie

David Gillespie teaches Russian language and literature at the University of Bath, where he specializes in postgraduate translation and interpreting. He has written several books and more than 50 articles on modern Russian literature and film, and published books on Russian language learning. He is currently writing a novel about post-Soviet Russia.

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Sex and Rank is a scientifically informed attempt to understand the nature of male-female relations in todays world. It is written in a lively and accessible style, with fulsome references to the available literature, and offers an original, innovative and provocative view of what makes us tick, and the why, the why not and the how of dealings between men and women.

David Gillespie

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Sex and rank

Copyright 2012 by Sergei Morozov

Copyright 2009

All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher, except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden.

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Contents

1. Terms of Reference

2. The World of Conflicting Groups

3. Sociobiology in under 1000 Words

4. The Evolutionary Highway

5. Variation, deviation, recombination

6. Instincts, Programming, Behaviour

7. Programs: Optimization

8. Chimpanzees: Ranks and Privileges

9. The Savannah Principle.

10. Chimpanzees Evolutionary Highway Man

11. The Role of Infantile Behaviour

12. The Family

13. Village Town Civilization

14. Man: Ranks and Privileges

15. The Alpha

16. The Free Choice of Partner

17. Reflexes versus Programs

18. The Path of Man. A Poetic Digression

19. Expansiveness and Selectivity

20. The Troop: from Gombe to Tai

21. Woman and Her Stages

22. Woman. The First Stage: The Search for Suitability

23. Discomfort and Aggression

24. Woman. The Second Stage: the Search for Quality

25. Sociality

26. Woman: The Third Stage. Imitation

27. Freud and Adler

28. Woman. Social Mistakes

29. Polygamy

30. The Mans Choice

31. Grooming

32. The Female Language

33. The Woman and the Alpha

34. Imprinting

35. A Mans Love

36. Man: Behavioural Peculiarities

37. Delight: an Additional Mechanism

38. To Show and to Look

39. The Concealment of Sex

40. Equality and Diversity in a Partnership

41. The Pseudo-alpha

42. Meanings. A Philosophical Digression

43. The Orgasm

44. Program Glitches

46. Infantilism

46. Jealousy

47. Homosexuality

48. Violations of Female Selectivity

49. Society as Selection Environment

50. BDSM

51. Humiliation and Abuse

52. Alphas and Civilization

53. Causes of Degeneration

54. Trivia

55. Irrationality

56. The Heterosis Effect: A Hypothesis

57. The Main Deviation

Bibliography

Index

Love 22

Aristocratic birth 36

Biological quality 4

Compensation 27

Degeneracy 49, 52

Energy 17

Health 5

Homophobia 6

Identification of the alpha 15

Imprinted choice of woman 34

Inferiority complex 27

Skull-hunting 7

Sperm wars 29

Talents 28

Technologies of getting acquainted 22

Testing of sex technologies 26

The chosen one 8, 21

The No! instinct 19

Womans move to another clan 7

Variability 4

Vibrator 33

Youth hyper-sexuality 39

1. Terms of Reference

Man, woman, love.

Male-female relations.

People have been observing these relations longer than they have been writing their own history, and these relations have always seemed complicated. All the time we hear that a woman is unknowable, she is irrational, she is unpredictable, and love is a mystery.

But what is interesting is that there is indeed a plethora of complicated things in the world, for instance, space stations, microwave ovens and micro-processors that contain millions of transistors,.

How does this work?

Should they wish to, people can arm themselves with books and find out how these complicated things work. Things are knowable, and people have the ability to get to grips with the most complex things.

But love has been the subject of writers attention for thousands of years and remains something of an enigma, something unknowable. Male-female relations can sometimes be understood, but in general they remain enigmatic.

This has its own logic, of course, because it should be possible to understand male-female relations, they should be subject to certain rules. They have been created by evolution and so they should not be complicated. All the more so as these relations have been familiar territory for a long, long time now.

Finding a solution should not be complicated, and because it still has not been found then we can assume that the problem has been tackled using the wrong information, the wrong methods, or the wrong people.