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Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - from Adventure to Revenge Audiobook (Unabridged)

By: Cindy M. Meston
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Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations---From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) Audiobook, by David M. Buss

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An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America's leading research psychologists.

Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. 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 decisions and 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 interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Why Women Have Sex uncovers 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 Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of 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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"I was quite young when this study came out...but like most pre-pubescent girls I was on my way to figuring out everything about my body, for all the answers I wouldn't get or couldn't get from my old fashioned Italian Mother, I would read instead in my usual no non-scene know how."

— Gloria (4 out of 5 stars)

Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - from Adventure to Revenge (Unabridged) Listener Reviews

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Authors conduct Kinsey-esque descriptive study of women's attitudes towards sex. Interesting but written mainly from an evolutionary psychology viewpoint. "

    — jen8998, 12/29/2013
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " Very well narrated, AND very interesting survey results. It could have been dry and boring but wasn't due to a convincing and talented narrator. Recommended. "

    — Katy, 12/24/2013
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    " The introduction of this book was a tad to long and involves. Once you work your way through that, the chapters move along quite quickly. It's written in a cross between magazine parlance and a sociological text. It is readable, enjoyable, and quite informative. "

    — Lauren, 10/28/2013
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    " probably a 5-star if I could remember stuff. "

    — Dan, 9/9/2013
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    " Might have been a good read but not a good reader on the audio version. "

    — Ruth, 6/6/2013
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    " Good work, ample and interesting, but some statistical generalizations are not accurate and sometimes take lightly. "

    — Monica, 11/22/2012
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    " I wanted to like this book more. It's a good book. I'm just a little disappointed that I didn't learn anything new. So....... I guess I already knew why women have sex? haha. "

    — Heather, 8/3/2012
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

    " I'm currently only 10% through, but it has annoyed me by confusing the G-spot with the urethral sponge - an apparently well researched book by sex researchers (one of whom is female) that can't find the G-spot! "

    — Alan, 6/30/2012
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " Interesting read on psychological nuances that drive biology. Learned a lot about myself as well. "

    — Daniel, 4/11/2012
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    " Plenty of food for thought. Although I was sceptical of parts that concerned our distant cave-dwelling ancestors. "

    — Martin, 2/16/2012
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    " Turns out, there are 237 reasons to read this book. "

    — Todd, 7/16/2011
  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    " Totally awesome book the mixes hundreds of personal vignettes with psychological theory. "

    — Aaron, 3/28/2011
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    " I got bored in places, partly because the people interviewed and investigated seemed for the most part to be young to middle-aged, white, educated, affluent, American--and how can we draw conclusions from such a limited group? "

    — Margaret, 5/21/2010
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " This is a good reference book, but not conducive to listening over the long term. The conclusions are excellent and the support material first rate. However, those characteristics caused me to read the book a bit at a time, then put it down read/listen to some more later. "

    — George, 1/14/2010

About Cindy M. Meston

Cindy M. Meston is one of the world’s leading researchers on women’s sexuality and a professor of clinical psychology and the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory, a cutting-edge lab on women’s sexual experience.