Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)

An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying womens sexuality that rivals the cultureshifting Kinsey Report, from two of Americas leading research psychologistsDo women have sex simply to express love, experience pleasure, or reproduce? When clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss, both at the University of Texas at Austin, joined forces to investigate womens underlying sexual motivations, what they found astonished them.Using womens own words, and backed by extensive scientific evidence, the authors delve into the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a mates infidelity, a ploy to boost social status, a barter for household chores, and even as a cure for a migraine headache. Meston and Buss offer a revelatory examination of the deepseated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive women to have sex, sometimes in pursuit of joy, and sometimes for darker, more disturbing reasons.Why Women Have Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of womens sexuality yet achieved and promises to inform every womans (and her partners) awareness of her relationship to sex.