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* 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.
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Why Women Have Sex, Cindy M. Meston, David Buss
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2009
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- Titel
- Why Women Have Sex
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Cindy M. Meston, David Buss
- Verlag
- Bodley Head
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2009
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1847921302
- ISBN13
- 9781847921307
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Psychologische Thematik, Psychologie, Frauen, Wissenschaft, Beziehungen, Feminismus, Sexualität & Intimität
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- * 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.