Multimedia Collection
The Sex Contract
(The Nature of Sex series)
VHS
60 minutes
1992
QL761 .N37 1993 v.3
When potential mates touch, it could be an encounter that lasts for just a few moments - or an alliance that lasts a lifetime. The Sex Contract looks at how the sexes come together, how they interact and how long they stay together. Males fight, bully, charm, and display in frantic efforts to establish dominance while wooing a female. Gigantic sea lions battle for exclusive mating rights to a harem, but male baboons have to win a female's affection and trust before being accepted as a worthy partner. Female rhesus monkeys conduct discreet affairs with strangers, and if she is hungry, the female praying mantis will devour the head of her partner during sex. In Sierra Leone where land is plentiful, Mende tribesman have many wives, while in the land poor Himalayas, many men share one wife.
Distributed by Genesis Film Productions.
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