Sex at Dawn

This book by Chris Ryan has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Diary of a CEO. The people who vouched for it on air: Aubrey Marcus, Dan Murray-Serter. It comes up in conversations about anxiety & stress, consciousness, depression & mood, psychedelics, relationships. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Oct 2020 and the most recent from Apr 2023. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you know about sex, marriage, family, and society"--Provided by publisher. Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. But this narrative is collapsing. Here, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, while debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, offer a bold alternative explanation. Ryan and Jethá's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners.

• “it was really the book Sex at Dawn by by Chris Ryan that actually opened my mind to this idea that there is a different concept”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “actually opened my mind to this idea”
  Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 202300:56:45

  Said during "The Surprising & Unbelievable Dark Side Of Open Relationships: Aubrey Marcus | E242". The episode features Aubrey Marcus: Founder of Onnit, the human-performance supplement company (maker of Alpha Brain) he built with Joe Rogan and sold to Unilever; podcaster, author, and founder of the Fit for Service community. Aubrey Marcus on building and selling Onnit with Joe Rogan, psychedelics, an eight-year polyamory experiment, and learning radical relationship ownership.

• “i told you about this book sex at dawn i highly recommend you read it so i had been telling myself the story”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i highly recommend you read it”
  Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 202001:25:35

  Said during "Overcoming Depression, Burnout, Anxiety and Insomnia with Dan Murray-Serter | E54". The episode features Dan Murray-Serter: Entrepreneur and co-founder of the brain-care supplement brand Heights, host of the Secret Leaders podcast, previously founder of the fashion app Grabble. Heights founder Dan Murray-Serter on overcoming depression, burnout, anxiety and insomnia, ayahuasca, and building a brain-care brand.