Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations- from Adventure to Revenge and Everything in Between - Couverture rigide

Meston, Cindy M., Ph.D.; Buss, David M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0805088342 ISBN 13 : 9780805088342

Editeur : Times Books, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Meston Cindy M Buss David M

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

* Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.

* Through the voices of real women, Meston and Buss reveal the motivations that guide women's sexual decisions and explain the deep-seated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive women's desires sometimes in pursuit of health or pleasure, or sometimes for darker, disturbing reasons that a woman may not fully recognize.

* Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Why Women Have Sex uncovers an amazingly complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality. They delve into the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a mate's infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts or household chores (resource acquisition), or as a cure for a migraine headache (medication).

* Why Women Have Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of female sexuality yet achieved and promises to inform every woman's (and her partner's) awareness of her relationship to sex and her sexuality.

Quatrième de couverture

Why do women have sex? Is it purely for pleasure or the desire to reproduce?

In their ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss, investigate the underlying sexual desires of women and identify 237 distinct motivations. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Meston and Buss give us a remarkably complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality. They explore the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a man's infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts (resource acquisition), or even as a cure for a headache (medication).

Why Women Have Sex explores the deep-seated psychology and biology of female sexuality, and promises to inform every woman's - and her partner's - awareness of her relationship to sex and her own sexuality.

'A readable, brutal analysis of how your brain chooses partners for you' Evening Standard

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Times Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805088342
• ISBN 13: 9780805088342
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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