J. D. Unwin

He served in the Northamptonshire Regiment and the Tank Corps, where he was twice wounded and awarded the Military Cross.

[1] In Sex and Culture (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and six known civilizations through 5,000 years of history.

[4] Unwin also stated, "In the past, too, the greatest energy has been displayed only by those societies which have reduced their sexual opportunity to a minimum by the adoption of absolute monogamy [...].

He further notes, "No society has yet succeeded in regulating the relations between the sexes in such a way as to enable sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period."

His hope for the future is that, "by placing the sexes on a level of complete legal equality, and then by altering its economic and social organization in such a way as to render it both possible and tolerable for sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period," a society may flourish.