He argues that games become socially central in patriarchal status orders where rank is zero-sum, whereas older matriarchal societies were more cooperative and oriented toward balance and harmony.
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Matriarchy
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Jiang uses Sex at Dawn to argue that women’s sexual agency and nonexclusive sexuality were common for most of human history and could support social harmony.
Jiang presents ancient matriarchal social organization as sexually autonomous, politically flexible, child-centered, and more egalitarian than later patriarchal arrangements.
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"Yeah, this is a really interesting question. So I use game theory as a way to frame human beings. Okay? But it doesn't necessarily..."
"So games aren't the natural state of humanity. They're a natural state of humanity for now, but not in the past, maybe not in..."
"Okay? So this is Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan. And he tries to show us that for most of human history, women had..."
"Okay? And that's a way to maintain peace and harmony in your society. Okay? If a woman is allowed to marry many brothers together...."
"you okay so in a society there's a hierarchy and the people in charge they want you to work hard they want you to..."
"first is it's fun okay it gives some pleasure to have sex with as many men as possible that's number one. number two is..."
"is historically how societies are usually organized with a woman in charge and as such societies tend to be very egalitarian because women don't..."
"...many children as possible and that's why after this transition from matriarchy to patriarchy a lot of women start to die okay so that's..."
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