Leland van den Daele

Category: Sex Differences

  • Is anything real?

    Is anything real?

    I do not know what goes on in the corridors of Davos or the contents of confidential projects funded by corporations and government entities, I am only a bystander who observes dubious research and pontificated guidelines promulgated by experts and agencies. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I cannot see behind the screen to…

  • Asymmetry in Reproductive Choice between the Sexes

    Asymmetry in Reproductive Choice between the Sexes

    Since impregnation is always in the other, the male knows only through trust and vicarious identification that the fetus or offspring is his own. And only perhaps through pragmatic proofs such as physical or behavioral similarities and DNA tests is his role in conception garnered with empirical probability. The sometimes tenuous and always mysterious relation of fatherhood…

  • Anatomy and Destiny

    Anatomy and Destiny

    Biologically-based qualitative differences between the sexes define the natural distinctions that differentiate male and female. The male possesses a penis; the female, a vagina and breasts. These anatomical differences are the foundation for functional divergences which possess profound psychological import. The psychological import arises from the natural potentials and constraints that are associated with anatomy. The…