Why women have sex : women reveal the truth about their sex lives, from adventure to revenge (and everything in between)
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Why women have sex : women reveal the truth about their sex lives, from adventure to revenge (and everything in between)
St. Martin's Griffin, 2010, c2009
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical notes and index
Originally published in hardcover in 2009 by Times Books
Summary: SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR. Do women have sex simply to express love, experience pleasure, or reproduce? When clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss, both at the University of Texas at Austin, joined forces to investigate women's underlying sexual motivations, what they found astonished them. Using women's own words, and backed by extensive scientific evidence, the authors delve into the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a mate's infidelity, a ploy to boost social status, a barter for household chores, and even as a cure for a migraine headache. Meston and Buss offer a revelatory examination of the deep-seated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive women to have sex, sometimes in pursuit of joy, and sometimes for darker, more disturbing reasons. Why Women Have Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of women's sexuality yet achieved