Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. I'm your host, Megan Down. My guest is evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleishman.

Diana's areas of research include human sexuality, the effect of hormones on behavior, and how disgust, that is, the condition of being disgusted, is an evolutionary adaptation,

especially for women. For nearly a decade, she was a lecturer at the University of Portsmouth in

England, and today Diana is a bit of a dissident academic. She's not affiliated with any

institution, and she's going to talk about why that is, as well as why the field of

evolutionary psychology is so often maligned, misunderstood, and misapplied. We go deep into the

relationship between female social hierarchies and cancel culture. I ask a question I frequently

ask, and that is whether cancel culture, however, defined is actually

run by women. She has some interesting things to say about that. And if that's not enough,

about halfway through, we get into a deep discussion about polyamory, what it really means,

what it takes to make it work, and why most people just don't have the emotional discipline

to succeed at it. Sorry to break it to you. For most people just don't have the emotional discipline to succeed at it.

Sorry to break it to you. For the bonus portion for paying subscribers, Diana stays overtime and

talks about how her younger self would feel about her current self, why she's a transhumanist,

and why she donated her eggs several years ago, and wrote letters to her future genetic offspring.

If you're not yet a paying subscriber, you're going to want to become one right now.

So go to megan-downm.substack.com.

And in the meantime, here is the main part of my conversation with Diana Fleischman.

Diana Fleischman, welcome to The Unspeakable.

Hey, thanks for having me.

I want to talk about lots of things.

I want to talk about your field, evolutionary psychology, and why it's routinely dismissed

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