Episode 26: Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2013

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Psychologist and author Jesse Bering joins us to talk about evolutionary psychology and his forthcoming book Perv. In the relatively uncontroversial part of the episode, we ask if homophobia is an adaptation and if women have evolved rape defenses. After that, sex with animals, sex with bookshelves, foot fetishes, amputee fetishes, falling down the stairs fetishes... I don't know, just listen. Or maybe don't.

Jesse Bering [jessebering.com]

Perv (pre-order) by Jesse Bering [amazon.com]

"Darwin's Rape Whistle," by Jesse Bering [slate.com]

"Natural Homophobes?" by Jesse Bering [scientificamerican.com]

The Belief Instinct by Jesse Bering [amazon.com]

Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering [amazon.com]

"I think you're some kind of deviated prevert." [youtube.com]

Special Guest: Jesse Bering.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	You want to know what I think?
0:18.0	Yes, I think you're some kind of deviated prevert.
0:21.6	I think General Ruta found out about your preversion and that you were organizing some kind of
0:25.5	muting of preverts on move.
0:55.6	Boss, and with no more brains than you have.
0:58.8	Baby, our attention, shall I stand?
1:04.8	Anybody can have a brain?
1:08.8	You're a very bad man.
1:11.2	That was a good man.
1:13.1	Just a very bad wizard.
1:15.2	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:16.9	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:19.2	And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University, and I am clearly the one without the stroke
1:24.1	going on right now.
1:26.5	Tamler, unfortunately, can't actually say the intro anymore.
1:29.6	I've just, I'm over it.
1:31.2	This is the last time wherever we're going to say it.
1:33.0	We're doing a different intro next time.
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