The changing art of seduction: ritual courtship, performing prostitutes, erotic entertainment

Barendregt, B. (2006)

Article / Letter to editor

Do the performing arts play a role in sexual selection? How does music influence mating practices in different cultures? an the performing arts create social settings where sexual relationships germinate and grow - even where sex is a disruptive force, an arena for competition and conflict? And if so, where does this power of the performing arts come from?

• Anthropology
• Performing arts
• Musicology
• Sexuality

• All authors: Barendregt, B.
• Date: 2006
• Publisher: IIAS, Leiden