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    Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations---From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
    Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations---From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
    Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations---From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
    Audiobook11 hours

    Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations---From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)

    Written by David M. Buss and Cindy M. Meston

    Narrated by Renee Raudman

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    About this audiobook

    Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, 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. The authors 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 9, 2009
    ISBN9781400184118
    Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations---From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
    Author

    David M. Buss

    DAVID BUSS is professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. He is the author of several books including THE EVOLUTION OF DESIRE, THE DANGEROUS PASSION, THE MURDERER NEXT DOOR, and WHY WOMEN HAVE SEX (co-authored with Dr. Cindy Meston). He has written for publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Psychology Today, and he has made more than thirty television appearances on shows including CBS This Morning, ABC's 20/20, and NBC's Dateline and Today, among others. Buss has received numerous awards, which include the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology by the American Psychological Association (APA), a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the G. Stanley Hall Award from the APA. Most recently, he received the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement (2017).

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    • 3/5
      This is a good reference book, but not conducive to listening over the long term. The conclusions are excellent and the support material first rate. However, those characteristics caused me to read the book a bit at a time, then put it down read/listen to some more later.

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    • 5/5
      Really insightful to understand women’s motivation for sex. Great read/listen for men and women alike.