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Why Women Have Sex
- Understanding Sexual Motivations - from Adventure to Revenge
- Narrated by: Renee Raudman
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. 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.
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- Jason Gauthier
- 2024-09-18
Very informative
This book covered more material than expected. The authors approach the question from evolutionary, physiological, clinical and psychological perspectives. While the motives behind the “why” are numerous, the presentations of the results from the wide array of research questions are fascinating.
Narrator did a terrific job at adapting her voice when quoting from the different women surveyed.
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- Jay
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- Paul B
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it shared ideas and Concepts that I was not aware of which was interesting. It also brought some confidence in the thinking that women think similar to men in their ways of sex. Overall it will help anyone in a better understanding of the subject. So I reccomend it.
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- Étienne G
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insightful
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