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Researcher explores prehistoric sex romps

Stone Age humans may have been as randy as some of their modern-day counterparts.

Research shows humans tens of thousands of years ago may have been having sex for fun as well as for procreation...

Bondage, group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were common in primitive societies as a way of building up social bonds, says archeologist Timothy Taylor of Bradford University.

A 30,000-year-old statue of a naked woman -- the Venus of Willendorf -- and an equally ancient stone phallus found in a German cave challenge the widespread belief that sex was mostly heterosexual and about making babies...

Mr Taylor is publishing his views in his book Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality.
Read entire article at Herald-Sun (Melbourne, Australia)