100,000 Years of Sex

The volume of procreation in 100,000 years of sex depresses me. Even if only one person got laid every millennium — and I'm pretty sure the actual statistic is higher — that's still about twice the amount of sex that I've experienced. So a new exhibit at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettman near Düsseldorf examining the last 100,000 years in sex is pretty much one big flip-off to guys like me.

The show "100,000 Years of Sex" at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettman near Düsseldorf addresses -- in a strictly scientific manner, of course -- such burning questions as: When did we start feeling lust and thinking about sex? Did meat get exchanged for sex in the Stone Age? And just how did the ancient Greeks and Romans do it?

You know, Rousseau often wrote about the noble savage, the idyllic days of man before modern enlightenment where man openly communed with nature. He was full of it, and I've always been skeptical, but a world where meat is sexual currency? My first thought is, "sign me up!" But then I consider the world's oldest condom... the slithering intestine ripped out of the freshly killed boar through which sex was bartered, then slipped over a caveman's erection, and suddenly I'm not so sure.

New Exhibition Pays Tribute to 100,000 Years of Sex [Spiegel.de] (via Posthuman Blues)