Multimedia Collection
Sex and the Human Animal
(The Nature of Sex series)
VHS
60 minutes
1992
QL761 .N37 1993 v.4
Sex and the Human Animal looks for the roots of the human obsession with sex. Just as the dazzling beauty of a peacock's tail serves no other function than attracting a mate, we see how humans send sexual signals through gestures, power, achievement, dress, make-up, and perfume, and where such behavior has its antecedents in the lower forms of life. While our courtship and display rituals often take place in an arena of pure fantasy with lights and music designed to allow our primal urges to well up, our closest living relatives, the bonobo chimps of Zaire, see no need for such artifice to remove their inhibitions. As the cameras observe their lifestyle, it becomes apparent that sex is a basic form of communication, and every member of the troupe, even a youngster, is a potential sexual partner for every other member.
Distributed by Genesis Film Productions.
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