Steal Estate
July, 2011
The 1980s repurposed sex on the beach as a drink, but our innate urge to get it on amid surf and sand started far earlier. "Our ancestors dispersed around the earth 70,000 years ago by following the shorelines out of Africa, which means we've been having sex on the beach since time immemorial," says Christopher Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. But it was self-preservation— the ocean served as a strong food source—not the allure of long walks on...
