In their ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy\nMeston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss investigate the\nunderlying sexual desires of women and identify 237 distinct\nmotivations for sex. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive\ninterviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their\npioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary\nemotions, Meston and Buss give us a remarkably complex and nuanced\nportrait of female sexuality. They explore the use of sex as a\ndefensive tactic against a man’s infidelity (protection), as a ploy\nto boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts (resource\nacquisition), or even as a cure for a headache (medication).

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Why Women Have Sex explores the deep-seated psychology and\nbiology of female sexuality, and promises to inform every woman’s –\nand her partner’s – awareness of her relationship to sex and her\nown sexuality.

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