Why Women Have Sex Quotes

“In cultures that practice polygyny, in which men are permitted to have more than one wife, the most desirable men often find several wives. Many women prefer to be the second or third wife of a high-status man rather than the sole wife of a low-status man. This can be explained by the “polygyny threshold hypothesis.” Stated simply, a woman can sometimes gain more resources by securing a third or a half of the bounty of a wealthy man who already has wives than she can by getting all of the resources of a poor man who has no wives.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“Feeling lonely and lacking intimacy are problems that are especially apparent for heterosexual women in their elderly years. Because women more often marry men who are older and because men have a shorter life expectancy than women, women generally outlive their husbands. Because elderly single women outnumber elderly men, it is harder for them to find a mate.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“Most women seek some kind of emotional connection or emotional involvement with a man before consenting to sex. From an evolutionary perspective, this is emotional wisdom women have inherited from their successful maternal ancestors. A man’s emotional involvement, particularly his genuine love, provides a powerful signal that he will stick with her through thick and thin, through health and sickness. Love provides the best chance that he will devote his commitment, provisions, and protection to one woman and her children. Men not in love feel freer to flit from woman to woman.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“If a woman enjoys having her cervix stimulated during sexual intercourse, then size can matter. For most women, it is going to take a good five or six inches in length to reach the cervix when a woman is sexually aroused.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“According to most surveys, the average penis ranges from five to six inches in length when erect and three to four inches in length when flaccid, or nonerect. Contrary to popular belief, penis length is not closely related to height.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“These motives ranged from the mundane (“I was bored”) to the spiritual (“I wanted to get closer to God”), from altruistic (“I wanted my man to feel good about himself”) to vengeful (“I wanted to punish my husband for cheating on me”). Some women have sex to feel powerful, others to debase themselves. Some want to impress their friends; others want to harm their enemies (“I wanted to break up a rival’s relationship by having sex with her boyfriend”). Some express romantic love (“I wanted to become one with another person”); others express disturbing hate (“I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease”). But none of these reasons conveyed the “why” that hid behind each motive.”
― Cindy M. Meston, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge

“In part because of the evolutionary roots of women’s sexual attractiveness, self-esteem is greatly influenced by how women feel about their bodies.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“Because a woman’s appearance provides such a bounty of cues to her fertility, men have evolved mate preferences that, perhaps unfortunately, give tremendous importance to a woman’s physical appearance. In some ways, it is a psychological fact of life that women are sometimes treated as sex objects, just as men are sometimes treated as status objects.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“Women’s heavier reproductive investment in producing their offspring means they are by far the more valuable reproductive resource. As a general rule, the more valuable the resource, the more people compete for access to it. Men must compete with each other for sexual access to women. Women can afford to be choosy since they are in greater demand when it comes to sex.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“For women, more economic freedom translates into more sexual freedom.”
― David M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge

“WHY WOMEN HAVE sex is an extraordinarily important but surprisingly little-studied topic. One reason for its neglect is that scientists and everyone else have assumed that the answers are already obvious—to experience pleasure, to express love, or—at the very heart of the biological drive to have sex—to reproduce.”
― Cindy M. Meston, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge