{"quotes":[{"text":"Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they’ve' got a lot of--.","author":"Jackson Lanzing","tags":["adventure","alien","anger","binding-day","borelletrox-v","dysfunctional","kolstak","mating-habit","mating-ritual","wedding-ritual"],"id":24095,"author_id":"Jackson+Lanzing"},{"text":"We want to look desirable. We want others to want to mate with us. No different than a colorful peacock. When girls dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing what all animals do when they try to make themselves desirable for a potential mate. That's the whole point behind the fashion, perfume, cosmetics, diet, and plastic surgery industries.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["beauty","beauty-standards","clubbing","cosmetic-surgery","cosmetics","diet","diet-industry","dieting","dieting-humor","fashion","fashion-industry","fashion","girls","girls-night","mating","mating-ritual","men-and-women","perfume","perfume","plastic-surgery","women","women-and-men"],"id":109563,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.","author":"Joe Pitkin","tags":["civil-engineering","mating-ritual","mating-rituals","perspective","social-anthropology"],"id":192805,"author_id":"Joe+Pitkin"},{"text":"The red lipstick? It's supposed to signal fertility and readiness to mate. Just like the swollen red butt of a baboon. That tight-fitting little dress that shows off your curves? From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, big breasts represent a healthy mate who can feed a lot of offspring. That's why men are programmed to like big tits. When you show off your curves, what you're really doing is advertising to the whole world: 'Look at me! I'm a healthy female! I'd be a perfect mate! Come mount me!","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["baboon","baboons","big-breasts-and-wide-hips","breast-implants","breasts","breasts-enhancement","butt","butts","curves","curvy","curvy-woman","dress","dresses","dressing-up","evolution","evolution-humor","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","fertility","lipstick","mating-call","mating-ritual","mating-rituals","offspring","tits"],"id":253889,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"I hated being imprisoned in my own home, my wolf hated it.","author":"A.J. Young","tags":["bride","eighteen-year-old","mate","mating-bond","mating-ritual","supernatural","wolf","wolf-pack","wolf-shifters"],"id":279475,"author_id":"A.J.+Young"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}