Why Women Have Sex by Cindy Meston - ISBN: 9780099546634
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Unlock female sexuality: 237 reasons why women really have sex.

Why Women Have Sex

Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)

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    336 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2010

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Summary

Why Women Have Sex is a fascinating exploration of the mysteries underlying women’s sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report.

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

In their groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss investigate the underlying sexual desires of women and identify 237 distinct motivations for sex. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews condu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099546634
ISBN-10:0099546639
Author:Cindy Meston, David Buss
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:15 October 2010
Weight:234g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

The most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation ever compiled

The most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation ever compiled – John Tierney * New York Times *
A fascinating and often extraordinary exploration of the psychology and biology of sexual behaviour * Daily Express *
A readable, brutal analysis of how your brain chooses partners for you * Evening Standard *
Why Women Have Sex is a fascinating tour of what psychology and biology can tell us about women’s sexual motivation. Meston and Buss are first-rate scientists and skilled writers who actually answer the question that everyone was afraid to ask – Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Why Women Have Sex is an endlessly well informed and irresistibly readable book…the most fascinating and illuminating look at female sexuality since Kinsey’s Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female – Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
one of the best books I’ve ever read on human sexuality…fascinating – William Leith * Evening Standard *
undeniably fascinating – Holly Kyte * Sunday Telegraph *

About The Author

Cindy Meston

Cindy Meston is one of the world’s leading researchers on women’s sexuality and a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory.

David Buss, one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of several books, including The Evolution of Desire and The Dangerous Passion.

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