Sex and Monogamy | Carin Bondar

In this episode, we speak with Carin Bondar, a biologist, writer, TV host, and public speaker. Carin is probably best-known for covering the topic at the forefront of everyone’s mind: sex. In various forms, she has documented all the strange and fascinating ways that animals approach enterprise reproduction--including us.  

As a presenter, Carin has appeared in shows for Discovery, Netflix, and an independent online video series “Wild Sex”, which has reached millions of people worldwide. She’s also authored several books. “Wild Sex”, which shares the same name as her video series, looks at all the weird and wacky ways that animals mate and rear their young, drawing parallels to our own human condition. Her most recent book, “Wild Moms”, published in 2018, focuses on the post-coital side of reproduction, which is all about the survival of offspring, a responsibility that falls most heavily on the shoulders of females.   

And if she wasn’t busy enough, she still holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia and leads expeditions to Borneo to help citizen scientists discover new species.   In our interview, we spoke about how she went from a crayfish biologist to stay-at-home mom to television host, what humans can learn about sex from animals, whether humans were designed for monogamy and much more.

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**DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE**  

Wild Sex (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Sex-Science-Behind-Kingdom/dp/1681771667  

Wild Sex (YouTube series) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLprl6grN2nB2DhNqJccISirm7KdZQ30o1   

Wild Moms  https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Moms-Motherhood-Animal-Kingdom/dp/1681776650/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=wild+moms&qid=1585503565&sr=8-2  

Sex At Dawn  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007679QTG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1  

Carin's Website http://carinbondar.com  

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