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数个世代以来，我们对雌性的关系和健康方面的认识一直建立在对雄性的观察之上。在性的领域，雄性求偶、与其他雄性竞争、胃口更大——他们是主导者。雄孔雀会进行精彩的表演，相貌平平的雌孔雀从树丛里冒出来观看。银背大猩猩杀死其他雄性，与多个雌性交配。雄性实验鼠急吼吼地爬到雌鼠背上，雌鼠做出欢迎的本能反应，好让自己受孕。但这种对性的认知过时而有局限性，像纪录片《野性英伦》一般，重复地将雌性塑造成被动的角色，仿佛它们生来就会接受雄性，这种观点并不符合近10年来得出的科学结论和事实。
要了解女性的性行为——从欲望到性反应再到生育——我们不能把重点放在男性的性行为上。我们必须研究女性的行为，而非仅仅研究女性对男性的反应，从而继续探索女性的行为原因。特别是，我们需要更细致地探究激素周期的影响，以及女性的大脑如何进化出了充分利用周期各个阶段的本事。很难判定研究中的偏见如何阻碍了研究女性的健康幸福（包括女性的性行为，尤其是生育力周期的作用）的进展，不过，是时候将老掉牙的态度放在一边，继续前进了。
迎接激素智慧的时刻到了。
[1] Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, and Ilyana Kuziemko,“The Home-coming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 4 (2006): 133-156.
[2] Kristina M. Durante, Ashley Rae, and Vladas Griskevicius,“The Fluctuating Female Vote: Politics, Religion, and the Ovulatory Cycle,” Psychological Science 24, no. 6(2013): 1007-1016.
[3] Katie Baker,“CNN Thinks Crazy Ladies Can’t Help Voting with Their Vaginas Instead of Their Brains,” Jezebel , October 24, 2012, http://jezebel.com/5954617/cnn-thinks-crazy-ladies-cant-help-voting-with-their-vaginas-instead-of-their-brains;Kate Clancy,“Hot for Obama, but Only When This Smug Married Is Not Ovulating,” Scientific American , October 26, 2012, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation/hot-for-obama-ovulation-politics-women/; Alexandra Petri,“CNN’s Hormonal Lady Voters,” Washington Post , October 25, 2012, https://www. washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/cnns-hormonal-lady-voters/2012/10/24/9617 99c4-1e1f-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html?utm_term=.48f969c61461.
[4] 1961年4月17日，在美国中央情报局的协助下，逃亡美国的古巴人在古巴西南海岸猪湾向菲德尔·卡斯特罗领导的古巴革命政府发起了一次失败的入侵，这就是所谓的猪湾事件。猪湾事件标志着美国反古巴行动的第一个高峰。古巴担心美国再次进攻，于是开始靠近苏联，最终导致了1962年的古巴导弹危机。——译者注
[5] 在2016年美国总统大选中，唐纳德·特朗普打败了希拉里·克林顿。——译者注
[6] Marylin Bender,“Doctors Deny Woman’s Hormones Afect Her as an Executive,” New York Times , July 31, 1970.
[7] Nancy Ross,“Berman Says He Won’t Quit,” Washington Post , Times Herald , July 31, 1970.
[8] “History,”Our Bodies Ourselves, http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/ history/.
[9] Jayne Riew, The Invisible Month , http://theinvisiblemonth.com/.
[10] Jayne Riew,“The Artist,” The Invisible Month , http://theinvisiblemonth.com/.
[11] Martie G. Haselton and Steven W. Gangestad,“Conditional Expression of Women’s Desires and Men’s Mate Guarding across the Ovulatory Cycle,” Hormones and Behavior 49 (2006) 509-518; Martie G. Haselton and Kelly Gildersleeve,“Human Ovulation Cues,” Current Opinion in Psychology 7 (2016): 120-125.
[12] “Policy & Compliance,”National Institutes of Health, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/policy.htm.
[13] G. H. Wang,“The Relation between ‘Spontaneous’ Activity and the Oestrous Cycle in the White Rat,” Comparative Psychology Monographs 6 (1923): 1-40.
[14] 本书英文原版首次出版于2018年。——编者注
[15] Malin Ah-King, Andrew B. Barron, and Marie E. Herberstein,“Genital Evolution:Why Are Females Still Understudied?” PLoS Biology 12: e1001851, doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001851.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Patricia L. R. Brennan, Richard O. Prum, Kevin G. McCracken, Michael D. Sorenson,Robert E. Wilson, and Tim R. Birkhead,“Coevolution of Male and Female Genital Morphology in Waterfowl,” PLoS One 2: e418, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000418.