Why women have sex: understanding sexual motivations from adventure to revenge (and everything in between)

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What turns women on? : scent, body, face, voice, movement, personality, and-- yes-- humor -- The pleasure of it : sexual gratification and orgasm -- The thing called love : an emotional and spiritual connection -- The thrill of conquest : from capturing a mate to poaching one -- Green-eyed desire : from guarding a mate to trading up -- A sense of duty : when responsibility or guilt calls -- A sense of adventure : when curiosity, variety-- and mate evaluation-- beckon -- Barter and trade : the value of sex-- literally and figuratively -- The ego boost : body, image, attention, power, and submission -- The dark side : sexual deception, punishment, and abuse -- Sexual medicine : the health rewards of a sex life -- Women's sexual complexities.;" ... 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) ..."--Jacket. What turns women on? : scent, body, face, voice, movement, personality, and-- yes-- humor -- The pleasure of it : sexual gratification and orgasm -- The thing called love : an emotional and spiritual connection -- The thrill of conquest : from capturing a mate to poaching one -- Green-eyed desire : from guarding a mate to trading up -- A sense of duty : when responsibility or guilt calls -- A sense of adventure : when curiosity, variety-- and mate evaluation-- beckon -- Barter and trade : the value of sex-- literally and figuratively -- The ego boost : body, image, attention, power, and submission -- The dark side : sexual deception, punishment, and abuse -- Sexual medicine : the health rewards of a sex life -- Women's sexual complexities.