What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DGUYYUI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 548 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Incendiary, profoundly insightful, and brilliantly illuminating, What Do Women Want? will change the conversation about women and sex, and is sure to spark dynamic discussion for years to come.. This bold and captivating journey into the world of female desire explores answers to such thought-provoking questions as: Are women perhaps the less monogamous sex? What effect do intimacy and emotional connection really have on lust? What is the role of narcissism - the desire to be desired - in female sexuality? Are political gains for women ("No means no") detrimental in the bedroom? And is the hunt for a "female Viagra" anything but a search for the cure for monogamy? Bergner goes behind the scenes of some of the most groundbreaking experiments on sexuality today and confronts us with controversial, sometimes uncomfortable findings. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioral scientists, sexologists, psychologists, and everyday women, he forces us to reconsider long-held notions about female sexuality. When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's arousal and desire inside ou
Watts said Think what he's got to say is important, but. Think what he's got to say is important, butafter reading the book am left with the impression that it could be condensed down to a short newspaper article, or perhaps a few paragraphsThe gist of it as I gather:1. our collective social story that women's sexual/arousal wiring is very different, if not opposite to that of men (i.e. their sexuality is emotional/security/relationship based, not promiscuous, not visua. Good, Thoughtful Book J. Rudolph Smith This really is a thoughtful, well-researched book about the scientific research efforts to determine the what motivates the patterns of women's desire and the efforts to develop a medication which will address feminine hyposexuality. It gets four stars instead of five only because, at this time, there is no answer, no "female viagra". The book does review research which suggests the influence of essentially Victor. "Great book on female desire." according to Justin Steele. Quite simply a very good book on female sexuality and desire. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in such things. The parts touching on the psychopharmacology of the new "female desire enhancing" drugs now ready to hit the market was of particular interest to me.