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Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations--From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) Hardcover - 2009

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.

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  • Title Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations--From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
  • Author Cindy M. Meston; David M. Buss
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Times Books, NY
  • Date 2009-09
  • ISBN 9780805088342 / 0805088342
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.21 in (23.88 x 16.26 x 3.07 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex (Psychology), Women - Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009008389
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.708

About the author

Cindy M. 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, a cutting-edge lab on women's sexual experience. David M. 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." Their jointly authored article, "Why Humans Have Sex," garnered international attention when it was published in the "Archives of Sexual Behavior."

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