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Cindy M. Meston PH.D. - 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 -- Womens 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 womens sexual decisions and explain the deep-seated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive womens 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 mates 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.

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Also by Cindy M Meston Womens Sexual Function and Dysfunction Ed with - photo 1

Also by Cindy M. Meston

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Womens Sexual Function and Dysfunction
(Ed., with Irwin Goldstein, Susan R. Davis, and Abdulmaged M. Traish)

Also by David M. Buss

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Evolutionary Psychology:
The New Science of the Mind

Personality Psychology:
Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

(with Randy Larsen)

The Murderer Next Door:
Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill

Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Ed.)

The Evolution of Desire:
Strategies of Human Mating

The Dangerous Passion:
Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex

Sex, Power, Conflict:
Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives

(Ed., with Neil Malamuth)

Why Women Have Sex

Why Women Have Sex

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Understanding Sexual Motivations
from Adventure to Revenge

(and Everything in Between)

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CINDY M. MESTON, PH.D.
AND DAVID M. BUSS, PH.D.

TIMES BOOKS
Henry Holt and Company New York

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Times Books
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
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Henry Holt is a registered trademark
of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

Copyright 2009 by Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss
All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Meston, Cindy M.

Why women have sex : understanding sexual motivationsfrom adventure to revenge (and everything in between) / Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8834-2

1. WomenSexual behavior. 2. WomenPsychology. 3. Sex (Psychology) I. Buss, David M. II. Title.

HQ29.M472 2009

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2009008389

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First Edition 2009
Designed by Victoria Hartman

Printed in the United States of America
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To all of the women in our study
who bravely shared
their sexual experiences with us

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CONTENTS

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What Turns Women On?
Scent, Body, Face, Voice, Movement, Personality, andYesHumor

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, Varietyand Mate EvaluationBeckon

Barter and Trade
The Value of SexLiterally 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

INTRODUCTION
Inside the Sexual Mind

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W hy women have sex is an extraordinarily important but surprisingly little-studied topic. One reason for its neglect is that scientists and everyone else have assumed that the answers are already obviousto experience pleasure, to express love, orat the very heart of the biological drive to have sexto reproduce. So, more than five years ago, we decided to undertake an intensive research project, involving more than three thousand individuals, to uncover the mysteries of womens sexuality.

When our scientific article Why Humans Have Sex was published in the August 2007 issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, it generated an avalanche of interest. What that media coverage revealed, however, was just the tip of the iceberg. In that original study, we identified 237 distinct sexual motivations that covered an astonishing variety of psychological nuance. These motives ranged from the mundane (I was bored) to the spiritual (I wanted to get closer to God), from altruistic (I wanted my man to feel good about himself) to vengeful (I wanted to punish my husband for cheating on me). Some women have sex to feel powerful, others to debase themselves. Some want to impress their friends; others want to harm their enemies (I wanted to break up a rivals relationship by having sex with her boyfriend). Some express romantic love (I wanted to become one with another person); others express disturbing hate (I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease). But none of these reasons conveyed the why that hid behind each motive.

Through statistical procedures, we clustered the motivations into natural groupings. We then set out to explore womens sex lives in richer detail in a new study designed specifically for this book. And we integrated our research with all the latest scientific findingsfrom our labs and from the labs of other scientists throughout the worldto present what we believe is one of the richest and deepest understandings of womens sexuality yet achieved.

Why Women Have Sex brings these insights to life with detailed descriptions of womens actual sexual encounters; the motives that impel women to have sex; and the theory behind why each of those motives exists in womens sexual psychology. Although human sexuality has been the primary focus of our scientific research for many years, this project proved to be more illuminating about womens sexuality than we ever expected.

How did we end up collaborating on this extraordinary project? As it happens, we have offices right next door to each other in the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin, where we are both professors. Given our shared professional interests, weve had many conversations about human sexuality. The topic of conversation turned one day to sexual motivation, and we started discussing a simple question: Why do people have sex?

As coauthors, we combine uniquely complementary domains of expertise. One of us, Cindy M. Meston, is a clinical psychologist and one of the worlds leading experts on the psychophysiology of womens sexuality. The other, David M. Buss, is an evolutionary psychologist and one of the worlds scientific experts on strategies of human mating. Our collaboration allowed us to develop a deeper understanding of womens sexuality than either of us could have achieved working alone.

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