Natural History of Love Book

	Introduction: Love's Vocabulary
	A Long Desire: The History of Love
	Egypt	3
	History's Paramour, the Serpent Queen	3
	Art in Ancient Egypt	7
	The Hieroglyphic Love Poems	10
	My Sister, My Bride	14
	A Long Desire	16
	Greece	17
	The World of the Citizen King	17
	The Woman's World	19
	Men Loving Men	21
	The Family	23
	Orpheus and Eurydice	25
	Rome	29
	The Nightmare of Girls	29
	Dido and Aeneas	32
	The Family	35
	Oh, Victoria!	38
	Ovid and the Art of Love	39
	Decorating Leisure Time	42
	The Middle Ages	43
	The Birth of Chivalry	43
	Books of Love	47
	Troubadours	49
	The Heart's Rebellion	51
	The Origins of Courtly Love	56
	Abelard and Heloise	60
	Modern Days	66
	The Angel and the Witch	66
	Romeo and Juliet	70
	Bridled Hearts	75
	A Waking Swoon	82
	A Return to Courtly Love	85
	Domestic Paradise	88
	Modern Love	90
	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Ideas About Love
	Plato: The Perfect Union	95
	Stendhal Meets the Deep South	99
	Denis de Rougemont: Love and Magic	105
	Marcel Proust and the Erotics of Waiting	112
	Freud: The Origins of Desire	123
	Attachment Theory	131
	All Fires the Fire: The Nature of Love
	The Loving Impaired	139
	Disabling Love	139
	The Horror of the Ik	141
	Brain-Stem Sonata: The Neurophysiology of Love	146
	The Evolution of Love	150
	The Plastic Brain	152
	New-Age Sensitive Guys	154
	Adultery	156
	The Battle of the Sexes	157
	The Chemistry of Love	159
	Mother Love, Father Love	159
	The Cuddle Chemical	162
	The Infatuation Chemical	164
	The Attachment Chemical	166
	The Chemistry of Divorce	167
	Aphrodisiacs	169
	A Necessary Passion: The Erotics of Love
	Fire from the Flesh: Why Sex Evolved	177
	The Spice of Life	180
	The Face	181
	The Evolution of the Face	184
	Survival of the Cutest	186
	Facing Our Biases	188
	The Hair	190
	Women and Horses	196
	Men and Cars	217
	The Indy 500	218
	The Lightest Longing: Sex and Flying	227
	Wings over Africa	230
	Men and Mermaids	236
	Sexual Chic: Perversion as Fashion	241
	Kissing	249
	On the Sensuality of Looking	255
	Passing Strange and Wonderful: Love's Customs
	Patterns in Nature	259
	The Courtship	261
	Flesh of My Flesh: The Marriage	267
	Of Cocks and Cunts	277
	Love on the Edge: Adultery, Extravagant Gestures, and Crimes of Passion	279
	Points for a Compass Rose: Varieties of Love
	Altruism	289
	For the Love of Children: Interplast	292
	For the Love of Strangers: Life and Death in the South Seas	308
	On Religious Love	314
	On Transference Love	322
	On the Love of Pets	326
	Postscript: The Museum	332
	Selected Bibliography	338
	Index	345