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Why Women Have Sex

Understanding Sexual Motivations - from Adventure to Revenge

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Why Women Have Sex

By: Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss
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An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America's leading research psychologists.

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.

©2009 Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss (P)2009 Tantor Media
Gender Studies Personal Development Psychology Sex Instruction Mental Health
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How many reasons?

Enlightening and rich in details, the books only down-fall is that it seems to be written more for a female rather than a male audience. This is fine since us guys can extrapolate so much for the betterment of our relationships and answer the “What Do Women Want” riddle once and for all!

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So many reasons women have sex will amaze you!

So many reasons women have sex will amaze you! Hundreds of case studies of women of all ages show the various reasons women sex from revenge, mate poaching, status, money, and power!

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Surprising and informative

First, let me say how exellent the narrator is. She made a research-oriented book come to life and remain interesting all the way through.
The book had some unexpected, sometimes amusing, important, and always interesting findings that could be of benefit to everyone, women and men alike. It was very easy to listen to, and I would highly recommend it.

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From a guy's point of view

I got this because I thought it might be of use to me as a guy and it was. I learned a lot. I'm not sure if audio is the best format for it as the reader may have specific questions and so only need specific sections. Reading what essentially is a report or series of essays (backed up by studies) doesn't exactly translate into a solid audio experience. Given what it is, it did the job very well.

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Fun

I’m a guy and I don’t know how many times I caught myself nodding my head and thinking “Isn’t that the truth!” while listening to this book. Want to have a little sexual insight into your woman? Listen to this book and have some fun while you do.

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Illuminating Work

Provides detailed micro-behavioral data and examples with analysis sufficient for context; a "what-it-is" book. No ethics or "shoulds" here, for that search elsewhere. If desiring to know the deeper "whys" of it suggest search the fields of evolutionary biology/psychology. If prefer dogma over data e.g. "what-should-I-do" and how to navigate the environment because lack of experience or thinking is hard, suggest a different book -- many are there, often with contradictory advice. But if you are intellectually curious, cherish understanding, like to think, exercise independent analysis, and engineer your own solutions -- this is your book.

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Good book

I like David buss
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I’m glad i gave it a listen
So much good stuff in this book
You should check it out

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Interesting enough

This is a fairly interesting book, and I have learned much about feminine psychology, but I find this book a little repetitive, one wonders if the book cannot be make shorter.

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Written from an American perspective

I listened to this while exploring Sri Lanka.I live in Asia.I did learn a great deal of things about the differences between various women.I also feel like men are really jerks,so it is women that end up bearing the brunt of indiscretions of men.Perhaps we men need sex a bit more than women do biologically.We never hear of women raping men for instance.At 45 and formerly divorced I really wanted to understand how women see things.Maybe we just mature differently.Young women between 20-40 have a short window into having children safely,so they do a great deal to lure the right kind of man.The problem is men don't really seem to reach stability until after 40,which runs against women's instincts for security.Just as we reach our peak earning years they reach their declining child bearing years.It wasn't a spectacular listen,but I learned a few things that could perhaps make me more sensitive to the needs of the opposite sex and perhaps the drives that push my own sex.

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Great Insights into how women behave!

Women are very complex. This books gives great insight into how they behave. and why.

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