Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation From Adventure To
Revenge (and Everything In Between)

Product Description

* Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When clinical psychologist Cindy Meston & 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 & Buss reveal the motivations that guide women's sexual decisions & explain the deep-seated psychology & 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 & evolutionary emotions, Why Women Have Sex uncovers an amazingly complex & 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 & deepest psychological understanding of female sexuality yet achieved & promises to inform every woman's (and her partner's) awareness of her relationship to sex & her sexuality.