This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into the complexities of women's sexuality, positioning itself alongside the influential Kinsey Report. Authored by two prominent research psychologists, it delves into the cultural and psychological factors that shape women's sexual experiences, aiming to illuminate the often misunderstood aspects of female desire and pleasure. Through rigorous research, the authors challenge existing narratives and provide fresh insights into the sexual lives of women.
* Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection?When clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David 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 decisionsand 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 interviewsconducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions,Why Women Have Sexuncovers 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 Sexstands as the richest and deepest psychological understandingof female sexuality yet achieved and promises to inform every woman's (and her partner's) awareness of her relationship to sex and her sexuality.
