A young and pretty girl with a face blinded by streams of hot tears bent over the lifeless body of a young man. Yesterday he caressed her with these same hands, and today these same hands were held captive by the giant teeth of a strange animal that came from the north side. Weak, evil, hungry … it perished and tried in every possible way to keep within itself the smoldering light of life. And by chance I came across a person who was even more defenseless and weary than she herself. It did not last long. The unbearable pain, blood and courageous attempts of the young man to fight off the unexpected companion … Other people, alas, came too late. The roar of the falling carcass of a dead animal and a living ring of half-dressed men around the lifeless body of a dead hunter … 

The girl cried and could not calm down. Why did the gods send this animal directly to their home? Why no one could help on time? She felt herself weaken. Yes, another man died again, and tomorrow the souls of new hunters could have gone into another world. Life is arranged this way, and not otherwise. How could she not know this? Nothing too unusual happened, just a new loss, but this time such a close person passed away!

For some reason, tears did not dare to leave her alone with the murdered youth. The shadow of the dwelling, in which the guy never managed to run, gently touched the girl’s shoulders, as if sympathizing with grief. The silence was soullessly destroyed by the quiet voice of the wind playing with foliage. The girl was worse than ever before this moment. It suddenly seemed to her that the spirits were leading her after the deceased into the valley of death, but it wasn’t scary …

… For now, let’s leave our poor heroine in the silence of primeval virgin forests. Let the wind softly caress her hair, and we will talk a little at this time. The main goal for which we mentally went back to the past, where mammoth meat and the skin of a saber-toothed tiger are still relevant, is to trace some features of the evolution of relations between a man and a woman. The ultimate goal of our journey will be the future, where the sprouts of new sexual revolutions are already waking up (who knows what they will lead to?), And we, as you probably already understood, will start from distant ancestors. Why did our heroine suddenly realize that she was not afraid of death? Who and for what purpose added new colors to the sexual attraction of man and woman and called the resulting color love? Try to answer these questions. We will use concrete examples to examine how gender relations have changed at different times. The main goal of our conversation is to enjoy traveling through the field of time and from understanding what heights human feelings can reach. The official pretext for such a trip is to try to find out how the new forms of relationships (say, virtual sex) differ from the primitive, cave. So, our girlfriend was not affected by the fear of death. Somewhere in the history of the relationship of people there was a turning point when the unity of two people circumvented by faith faith in spirits. Earlier death remained the exclusive destiny of spiritual life. The fear of leaving this world could be overcome through one or another faith (whether it was even the belief that life would continue in another world or that death was just a dream). At a certain moment, the power of affection between two people reached such a strength that life without a partner lost its meaning, and therefore it was no longer worth fearing death. Most people relatively quickly emerged from a state in which a partner was more valuable than life, and it only occurred under successfully prevailing circumstances (for example, when something doomed a man and woman to isolate themselves from the rest of society or set them such tasks that could not be solved without the help of a partner). Meanwhile, the relationship of the sexes should have been shocked by a new eruption, which occurred in the so-called “axial time”. And during the birth of love in our history, the weaknesses of this feeling were more obvious than the strength … … Meanwhile, in the primeval forest, the girl gradually began to calm down. The tears disappeared, and only a quiet sadness remained. She continued to look at the young man, as if trying to understand something. This girl just learned to love when humanity did not yet possess the full power of this feeling. But newborn love was weak. The one who took it into his heart, himself became weaker. So our girl did not know that while she was sad over the body of the deceased youth, another predator was approaching from behind. Healthy, strong, massive. And it seems that the girl can’t be saved …