While Tara Mulder’s investigations are understandable, she gets it mostly wrong. The Greeks as well as the Muslims (see their sayings and book titles surrounding the phrase, “Nine Parts of Desire”) were more familiar with female sexuality’s full capacities then she or her colleagues today. That is because they lived within memory of prehistorical matriarchies, and were still practicing aspects of it. Moreover, it is natural. Back when women managed the human community, as they must have for the hundreds of millennia before men cognized fatherhood, they had more and freer sex. “Free women don’t commit adultery,” as Hind tried to explain to Muhammad, during his takeover of matriarchal Mecca in the 7th century. In the old days, women managed sex and its surrounding exchanges, as we can see from the well-fed women depicted in the tens-of-millennia-old Venus of Willendorf sculptures. Alas, to bring men more fully into the family and to get more work out of them, WOMEN HAD TO TELL MEN WHO THEIR CHILDREN WERE. Indeed, women brilliantly realized that A) they could withhold sex and negotiate exchanges of good and services, but then B), if they give men their children and more exclusive sexual access, they can get even more work to build not only the family but civilization. Obviously, this process, which involves romantic love, patriarchal responsibility and the law, as well as sex, is a work in progress to this day. Nevertheless, modern men do love and work for their kids much more than did the Neandertals, so overall the effort was successful. Yes, patriarchy has brought many abuses but it also brought men into the family, unleashed their energy and helped build the vast family improvements and creature comforts of civilization. Rather than claiming women are highly sexed according to abusive patriarchs, and denying that they can have multiple or hundreds of consecutive orgasms (which must have been an evolutionary adaptation from “rape marriage” days), how about recognizing the natural sexuality of women in the matriarchal era and the equally natural need to limit it , especially publicly (it continued to a large degree in private) when women as well as men helped form patriarchies?