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Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
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...more
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...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
September 29th 2009
by Times Books
(first published January 1st 2009)
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Apparently two of my coworkers were wondering why I was reading this book. Why would you wonder that? Human sexuality is a fascinating subject, touching on biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, culture, history, religion, ethics, and several other disciplines that I am no doubt forgetting. So, of course I'd read this book.
First off, the title is apt. The core of the book is a survey of 1,006 women who shared their own sexual experiences. Quotes from these responses, giving the ages and o...more
First off, the title is apt. The core of the book is a survey of 1,006 women who shared their own sexual experiences. Quotes from these responses, giving the ages and o...more
My wife checked this out from the library. I started reading it and found it interesting enough to complete. I did learn some things, maybe that's whay she checked it out :). The trouble is; I’m not so sure I wasn’t bamboozled by the sexperts. Much of the more interesting claims seemed a little flimsy on the evidence. In addition, biases in all the social sciences are difficult to overcome, and the section on ethnic differences made me cringe because of its political correctness. They convenient...more
Who could resist that title? An odd mix of the fascinating & revealing and the mind-numbingly obvious. Evolutionary psychology is a discipline with brutally harsh lessons for those of us men who aren't tall, handsome, rich or famous - (or on the womens' side, those who aren't pretty, of breeding age, with child-bearing hips and good judgment of mens' character) but those are truths we all intuitively understand at some level anyway, and at least it makes a kind of sense of them. And there ar...more
I found this book very interesting. Having a particular preference for behavioral and biologic science, I enjoyed the coupling of science and emotion in the female sexual response. I found the stories to be engaging, well articulated, and pertinent. As a Master's in Nursing Education student, nearing graduation, I found the referencing and most of the studies to be concise, plausible, and well documented.
The reader of the audio book was easy to listen to, however I did find her attempts as crea...more
The reader of the audio book was easy to listen to, however I did find her attempts as crea...more
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Заедно с още много, много въпроси в Защо жените правят секс, въпросът защо жените толкова често се обвързват и женят за пари, намира своя отговор, и той може да не е по вкуса на най-фанатичните феминистки, но какво да се прави, наука и сляпа идеология често са в конфликт :)
Заедно с още много, много въпроси в Защо жените правят секс, въпросът защо жените толкова често се обвързват и женят за пари, намира своя отговор, и той може да не е по вкуса на най-фанатичните феминистки, но какво да се прави, наука и сляпа идеология често са в конфликт :)
Este es un libro de divulgación y por ende, no puedo decir si es bueno o es malo. Pero sí puedo mencionar que ¡me ha encantado!
Seguramente, entre mujeres, a veces nos hemos preguntado ¿qué te gusta de él? ¿Qué le ves a ese hombre si está feo?
Bien, pues en este libro, los autores nos explican de manera muy coloquial, sin tanta parafernalia ni palabras complicadas de entender, a qué se debe que una mujer se sienta o no atraída por un chico. Que si el olfato, que si los genes, que si tiene que si l...more
Seguramente, entre mujeres, a veces nos hemos preguntado ¿qué te gusta de él? ¿Qué le ves a ese hombre si está feo?
Bien, pues en este libro, los autores nos explican de manera muy coloquial, sin tanta parafernalia ni palabras complicadas de entender, a qué se debe que una mujer se sienta o no atraída por un chico. Que si el olfato, que si los genes, que si tiene que si l...more
This book makes two important contributions. First, is the title. Dr Meston does not confuse love and sex, although emotional reasons (love and commitment) ranked high in the original study. Second, a man can identify with many of the same reasons!
With the evolutionary psychology input, the book stays within the procreation/pleasure paradigm, yet includes reasons like, "wanting to get close to God": a small percentage.The Sacred Female
Had this book been written by Dr. Buss alone, I would have...more
With the evolutionary psychology input, the book stays within the procreation/pleasure paradigm, yet includes reasons like, "wanting to get close to God": a small percentage.The Sacred Female
Had this book been written by Dr. Buss alone, I would have...more
Having just read Bonk, it was hard not to compare the two books. Why Women Have Sex is loaded with some very interesting statistics and I appreciated getting something less anecdote and trivia, although the informational data appeared to be less focused or within a general thesis. A lot of the book drives back to the core evolutionary advantages for a woman to have sex and it was interesting to see the bottom line exposed in such a way. The writers had an effective way of dressing down the sex e...more
Mar 28, 2010
Christine
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While this book gave a lot of insight into the scientific side of motivations for sex, I think the authors overestimate the role of biology and picking mates for evolutionary advantage. One part I especially liked, though, was the huge amount of unedited anecdotes from real women. Interesting book, not really my jam.
Fairly insightful and interesting read. Study of female sexuality conducted jointly by one sexual psychologist and one evolutionary psychologist. It wasn't as engaging as I'd hoped for (after listening to a KPCC radio interview with the authors). A little too light for my tastes. But I enjoyed reading about possible evolutionary explanations for women's "mating behavior". The authors quote the words of women who participated in an extensive scientific survey. Reading this may help women better u...more
I was quite young when this study came out...but like most pre-pubescent girls I was on my way to figuring out everything about my body, for all the answers I wouldn't get or couldn't get from my old fashioned Italian Mother, I would read instead in my usual no non-scene know how.
I got bored in places, partly because the people interviewed and investigated seemed for the most part to be young to middle-aged, white, educated, affluent, American--and how can we draw conclusions from such a limited group?
I'm currently only 10% through, but it has annoyed me by confusing the G-spot with the urethral sponge - an apparently well researched book by sex researchers (one of whom is female) that can't find the G-spot!
I wanted to like this book more. It's a good book. I'm just a little disappointed that I didn't learn anything new. So....... I guess I already knew why women have sex? haha.
Good book with some great insights into women's sexual motivations. I'm not a fan of the style of study they did for this book, which is to use self-reports and interviews. I think people have a tendency to rationalize actions they take when they don't fully understand them. But I will say that Meston and Buss do a fairly good job of pairing the interviews they conducted with women to studies that show a similar result, which gives statistical credence to the self-report. I'll be honest, I'm jus...more
Authors conduct Kinsey-esque descriptive study of women's attitudes towards sex. Interesting but written mainly from an evolutionary psychology viewpoint.
Very well narrated, AND very interesting survey results. It could have been dry and boring but wasn't due to a convincing and talented narrator. Recommended.
Recommended on Skeptically Speaking show #90 on December 17, 2010. http://skepticallyspeaking.ca/episode...
Good work, ample and interesting, but some statistical generalizations are not accurate and sometimes take lightly.
Interesting read on psychological nuances that drive biology. Learned a lot about myself as well.
Totally awesome book the mixes hundreds of personal vignettes with psychological theory.
Might have been a good read but not a good reader on the audio version.
Turns out, there are 237 reasons to read this book.
Feb 12, 2013
Abhinav
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i need info something
The introduction of this book was a tad to long and involves. Once you work your way through that, the chapters move along quite quickly. It's written in a cross between magazine parlance and a sociological text. It is readable, enjoyable, and quite informative.
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.
Science has "proven" it Sex (~Twice a week)=health and longevity! So who wants to have sex XD
All in all a great book. It is written fluidly and with sufficient experimental qualitative and quantitative data. If there is one book I've read this year that I would recommend the most, so far, it would be this one. Insightful and interesting.
All in all a great book. It is written fluidly and with sufficient experimental qualitative and quantitative data. If there is one book I've read this year that I would recommend the most, so far, it would be this one. Insightful and interesting.
Jul 25, 2010
Parcell
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shud of bin subtytled "in the hoap that maybe won day, they will be lukky enuff to hav a rawmp in the sheets with parsell"
Plenty of food for thought. Although I was sceptical of parts that concerned our distant cave-dwelling ancestors.
probably a 5-star if I could remember stuff.
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