During Alison's "Nether Regions 101", the name I remembered most was Leonard Shlain and his writings in Sex, Time and Power. The book details mankind's discovery and understanding of time due to an evolutionary flux, in which women began to understand the relationship between sex and pregnancy due to lunar cycles. This allowed them to refuse sex to men during ovulation, forcing men to confront women on equal terms.
While these writings offer new viewpoints to traditional views of sexuality, I can't help but feel slightly skeptical about them. Perhaps it's some psychological defense mechanism where my masculine and chauvinistic ego can't stomach the idea of my sex being this tyrannical entity, or maybe my limited understanding of genetics and evolution makes me wonder how this evolutionary flux could cause the earliest humans to equate menstrual patterns with the concept of months. Regardless, I can't quite take a side for or against Shlain, though his writings do share an equal concept with Lysistrata.
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