Book description
Why do women have sex? Is it purely for pleasure or the desire to
reproduce?
In their ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy Meston
and evolutionary psychologist David Buss investigate the underlying
sexual desires of women and identify 237 distinct motivations for sex.
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, Meston and Buss give us a
remarkably complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality.
They explore the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a man's
infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status),
as a barter for gifts (resource acquisition), or even as a cure for a
headache (medication).
Why Women Have Sex explores the deep-seated psychology and
biology of female sexuality, and promises to inform every woman's -
and her partner's - awareness of her relationship to sex and her own sexuality.
Cindy Meston
is one of the world's leading researchers on women's sexuality and a
professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin,
where she directs the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory.
David Buss
, one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, is a
professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of
several books, including
The Evolution of Desire
and
The Dangerous Passion
.
