This provocative presentation promises to change forever the way you view yourself and where you came from. Using the bold observations of "Sex, Time and Power, "as a springboard, Dr Shlain explores female sexuality and why humans mate in a manner totally different from the other sexually reproducing species. Lack of estrus, explosive orgasms, harmonized lunar periods, and excessive menstrual blood loss, were all necessary adaptations to teach women how to anticipate the future. Men, taught by their women, learned they were doomed to die. Sex, death, and birth set in motion a complex dance known as the human relationship. This stimulating, inspiring, and visually arresting presentation is filled with startling historical anecdotes and fresh compelling ideas. It is a paradigm-shattering experience that will transform your view of history and your understanding of gender, sexuality and evolution.

Leonard Shlain, author, thinker and medical doctor, is chief of laproscopic surgery at San Francisco 's California-Pacific Medical Center . Dr Shlain asserts that the arrival of alphabet literacy in cultures worldwide unbalanced the right and left brains in humans, which initiated the decline of the feminine and ushered in the reign of patriarchy and misogyny. He investigates these ideas in three critically acclaimed, national bestselling, award-winning books, Art & Physics, The Alphabet Versus The Goddess, and Sex Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution, a recent recipient of the Quality Paperback Book Club Award for Non-Fiction.