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Factors of Sexual Freedom Among Foragers in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Andrey V. Korotayev

Russian State University for the Humanities

Alexander A. Kazankov

Russian Academy of Sciences

Among the negative predictors of sexual freedom, cultural complexity always has been mentioned as most important. However, regression analysis revealed the existence of a reverse trend within the interval between 11 and 22 points of Murdock’s Cumulative Scale of Cultural Complexity. This suggests that it is senseless to try to find a general set of regularities regarding the correlation between cultural complexity and sexual freedom. One would expect to find different sets of regularities for simple, medium-complexity, complex, and supercomplex cultures. In this article we begin with a summary analysis of research conducted on simple societies, suggesting a model of relationships between cultural complexity and female premarital sexual freedom among foragers. We suggest that the underlying variable in this model is foraging intensification.

Key Words: gender • sex • female status • hunter-gatherers • cultural evolution

Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 37, No. 1, 29-61 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1069397102238920
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