What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently
by Townsend, John Marshall
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- 9780195131031
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Synopsis
Following the work of E. O. Wilson, Desmond Morris, and David Buss, What Women Want--What Men Want offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament ofmarriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions. Drawing upon 2000 questionnaires and 200 intimate interviews that show how our sexual psychologies affect everyday decisions, John Townsend argues against the prevailing ideologically correct belief that differences in sexual behavior are "culturally constructed." Townsend shows there aredeep-seated desires inherited from our evolutionary past that guide our actions. In a fascinating series of experiments, men and women were asked to indicate preferences for potential mates based on their attractiveness and apparent economic status...
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- SGS Trading Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU0508402
- Title
- What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently
- Author
- Townsend, John Marshall
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0195131037
- ISBN 13
- 9780195131031
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 1999-04-22
- X weight
- 16 oz