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A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles?
Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause?
Human sexuality seems normal to us
but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals.
Jared Diamond argues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as were our large brains.
He also describes the battle of the sexes in the human and animal world over parental care, and why sex differences in the genetic value of parental care provide a biological basis for the all-too-familiar different attitudes of men and women towards extramarital sex.
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Many of us pursue fitness because we want to remain attractive to partners and potential partners, and we stay healthy so we can continue to have sex with those partners. But why do people care so much about sex? This book, written by an evolutionary biologist, explains how all the weird quirks of human sexuality came to be: sex with no intention of procreation, invisible fertility, sex acts pursued in private--all common to us, but very different from most other species. Why Is Sex Fun? asks us to look at ourselves in a brand-new way, and richly rewards us for doing so.
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This book speculates on the evolutionary forces that shaped the unique aspects of human sexuality: female menopause, males' role in society, having sex in private, and?most unusual of all?having sex for fun instead of for procreation. Through comparative evolution, biologist and science author Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies, LJ 2/15/97), poses credible and thought-provoking yet entertaining factors: the lengthy period of dependency of human infants, sex for pleasure as the tie that helps bind a mother and a father together, and menopause as an evolutionary advantage that, by ending the childbearing years, allows females to pass wisdom and knowledge on to society and succeeding generations. Recommended for most libraries.?Gloria Maxwell, Kansas City P.L., Kan.
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"The best book on the subject I've read....Fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they do."―Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses
"An engaging display of evolution's hidden logic."―Los Angeles Times
"Guaranteed to keep a potential partner amused."―New York Review of Books
"A humorous, wide-ranging look at the evolution of human sexuality."―Chicago Tribune
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About the Author
Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the National Medal of Science, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of the international best-selling books Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and The Third Chimpanzee.
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File Size: 721 KB
Print Length: 177 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0465031269
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (March 20, 2014)
Publication Date: March 20, 2014
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B00IO29XJU
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Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among Dr. Diamond's many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan's Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by Rockefeller University. He has published more than six hundred articles and several books including the New York Times bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Additional information about Dr. Diamond may be found at his personal website, www.jareddiamond.org.
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Dick_Burkhart
5.0 out of 5 stars Detective Diamond Investigates Human SexualityReviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016
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This great little book shows us how science really works. It's like a series of detective stories - following clues (generating hypotheses) until you run into walls (counterarguments) until eventually a more or less satisfactory theory emerges (subject to the next scientist’s new evidence or argument). In this case it's all about how evolution has shaped human sexuality, much of it by comparing us with other primates and examining our evolutionary history as best we know it.
The first big question, referred to in the title of the book, is why we can enjoy sex throughout most of our lives, often daily, unlike many primates, even though women are infertile most of that time and it takes time and energy away from other pressing activities. It's not as obvious as you might think. From one mystery to another, detective Diamond just whets your appetite for more.
Yet there is a question that I've wondered about for many years, a question that I think needs to be more fully addressed: Why are male and female sexuality so badly matched? He does explain (p. 100) that the "hunter-gatherer lifestyle involves a classic conflict of interest": "A woman is best off married to a good provider, but a man is not best off being a provider". Then he proceeds to note that "Conflicts of interest between people closely related by blood or marriage are the commonest, most gut wrenching tragedies of our lives." Then why hasn't evolution found some way to make our lives less tragic? Is it that we are just too young as a species or has this actually contributed to our evolutionary success?
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Margit Alm
5.0 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable book from Jared DiamondReviewed in the United States on August 26, 2017
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I am a bit biased towards Jared Diamond. I simply liking reading his books, his style, the way he analyses and explains, intertwined with lighthearted anecdotes.
This is one of his older books but deals with a timeless topic: evolutionary biology - in this case the evolution of sex.
I found it very informative. It certainly added to my knowledge, and - as with all Jared Diamond books - it makes a good reference.
Anyone interested in evolutionary biology should not miss this book.
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Leib Gershon Mitchell
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good overallReviewed in the United States on July 4, 2007
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There is a bit of overlap in this book with "The Third Chimpanzee," and this is to be expected. (Many of us have noticed that authors tend to cover the same points again and again.) On account of this, it loses one star.
On the good side, this book is very concise and light to read. There are almost no graphs in the book (for maximum simplicity).
The best points:
1. There wwas a good discussion of the process of going about testing a theory/ hypothesis, and though this may need to be read several times to be understood it is something that is interesting to know.
2. There were lots of neat little factoids about animals (such as elephants having 5 sets of teeth over the course of a life).
3. The questions surrouding the function of concealed ovulation were dealt with in a very easy-to-understand way that didn't bog the reader down with excessive technical details.
4. Diamond's beginnings into analyzing the male/ female division of labor were, by far, the best part of the whole book. It was sufficiently quantitative to be believable, but not so much as to be boring.
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black mamba
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look at the mating habits of humans and other speciesReviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014
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The book is very detailed in delving into the oddities of human sexuality. However, he makes some assertions that I find it hard to agree with and this was frustrating, as I have faith in his process.
For Instance, the claim the women have no idea when they are ovulating and men get no physical signals. I disagree with that. Women often know they are ovulating and men certainly know by whatever physical change shows itself to them, whether it be a change in skin tone or pheromones. They circle like sharks, and that is 35 years of life experience talking.
I wish he had delved into the brain operations and introduced some of that, which seemed a glaring oversight.
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babubob
3.0 out of 5 stars A question without an answerReviewed in the United States on December 11, 2007
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I started reading Diamond with Guns, Germs, and Steel and went on to other of his works. While reading "Why Is Sex Fun" we were staying with our daughter, helping her care for a newborn and his comments on the energy expenditure of caring for an infant were enlightening. His writing was insightful and at the same time entertaining, but unless I skipped a page somewhere he fails to answer two questions presented in the advertising - Why is it fun? and Why humans choose privacy for sex? Compared to Guns... and Collapse, this one is a lightweight and not just in the number of pages.
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Evelyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and informative bookReviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016
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I could not put this very interesting downloaded book down and finished it in under five days. Someone wrote in the reviews that this book consists of the juicier parts of another book, "The Third Chimpanzee" by the same author. It explains how humans and our sexual behaviours are different from other animals. The price of the Kindle edition is also extremely reasonable. Buy it now.
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JW
5.0 out of 5 stars Really well written and entertaining science readReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2017
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Fascinating read. A smart man explains complicated things in an approachable way. I found out about it because a colleague assigns it as reading in an evolutionary biology class that he teaches. It's a good read, and will keep your attention to the end. You do get some funny looks on the plane when reading it though thanks to the title and the cover. But, after some embarrassment it led to some good conversations. The only problem was I loaned it to a nice man on the flight home after I finished it and never got it back. I bought another copy because it's one I want to have in the library.
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movedbymortensen
4.0 out of 5 stars they found it all such FUN. There is still a question mark left in ...Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2014
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Jared Diamond continues where Dawkins feared to tread. He has just dissected the reasons why human beings (the Third Chimpanzee) mates continuously, recklessly, pointlessly a lot of the time, when the other members of the animal family use sex for the reason it was 'invented'... namely to reproduce themselves with. Humans have the biggest penises of all the animals in relation to their size... and this MUST be evolution... they found it all such FUN.
There is still a question mark left in the last chapter though.... and for those of you looking for porny pictures.. there aren't any - just pleasant grown-up humour.
Not a page scorcher to keep... but for tucking beside Richard Dawkins... yes.
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Iain S. Palin
4.0 out of 5 stars It's a good question...Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2012
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Sexual reproduction is a key factor in the survival and development of life on Earth, a shuffling of the genetic pack that gives organisms a better chance to deal with evolutionary pressures. That much is almost universally accepted. What Diamond does is take the question to a new level: humans are almost unique in practising "recreational sex", so why do we do it, how did it come about, and what advantages does it offer our species to offset the undoubted raft it problems it creates? And then he answers the questions. While there is inevitably some speculation involved, the result is pretty convincing, as well as being readable and informative. The book is almost light reading, especially after Diamond's larger works on the rise of societies and our modern world ("Guns, Germs, and Steel") and the fall of societies and potentially of our modern world ("Collapse"), but it is not lightweight any more than they are dull. It is Diamond's skill to be neither lightweight nor dull, and this comes through in all that I have read by him. In short, this is another book that is well worth reading.
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Gingham Ribbon
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, informative, entertaining, but flawed.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2009
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Why is sex fun? is interesting, but it lacks an answer to the question posed in the title. The evolution of regular sex during non fertile times, female 'receptivity' regardless of when ovulation takes place, and how menopause may have evolved are all covered in some detail. This is interesting, well thought out and clearly explained. However, there are some glaring omissions and a few stylistic irritations that I found disappointing.
Diamond sets up his explanations with assumptions of what he believes the reader assumes or feels, none of which relate to my own thoughts and opinions and I found being told what I was thinking to be irritating. It also detracts from the interesting points he raises.
The discussion of some of the genetic reasons behind human sexual behaviour is thorough and fascinating. However, the question 'why is sex fun?' is not specifically about behaviour. There is no mention of the 'fun' involved; particularly surprising being the lack of discussion or even mention of orgasm. There are good reasons cited for the amount of sex people have, the reasons for people staying together and the reasons for wanting more than one partner, but absolutely nothing about how or why it is FUN.
I was left still asking the questions I hoped I'd find answers to in the book. Why do women orgasm? for example. There is plenty on females being receptive to sex but nothing on us enjoying it. How do our sexualities develop and define our pleasure? Do other animals have 'fun'? Is it unusual for the female to orgasm? How would our behaviour be different if it was merely a basic drive that wasn't as much 'fun' (like eating or hunting.)
Had the book been differently titled, I wouldn't have been disappointed. I'd have seen it as an excellent collection of theories and facts about human sexual behaviour and how we compare to other animals. But I kept waiting for the title essay to appear and it never did.
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About the Author
Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the National Medal of Science, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of the international best-selling books Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and The Third Chimpanzee.
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File Size: 721 KB
Print Length: 177 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0465031269
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (March 20, 2014)
Publication Date: March 20, 2014
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B00IO29XJU
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
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Lending: Not Enabled
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Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among Dr. Diamond's many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan's Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by Rockefeller University. He has published more than six hundred articles and several books including the New York Times bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Additional information about Dr. Diamond may be found at his personal website, www.jareddiamond.org.
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Dick_Burkhart
5.0 out of 5 stars Detective Diamond Investigates Human SexualityReviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016
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This great little book shows us how science really works. It's like a series of detective stories - following clues (generating hypotheses) until you run into walls (counterarguments) until eventually a more or less satisfactory theory emerges (subject to the next scientist’s new evidence or argument). In this case it's all about how evolution has shaped human sexuality, much of it by comparing us with other primates and examining our evolutionary history as best we know it.
The first big question, referred to in the title of the book, is why we can enjoy sex throughout most of our lives, often daily, unlike many primates, even though women are infertile most of that time and it takes time and energy away from other pressing activities. It's not as obvious as you might think. From one mystery to another, detective Diamond just whets your appetite for more.
Yet there is a question that I've wondered about for many years, a question that I think needs to be more fully addressed: Why are male and female sexuality so badly matched? He does explain (p. 100) that the "hunter-gatherer lifestyle involves a classic conflict of interest": "A woman is best off married to a good provider, but a man is not best off being a provider". Then he proceeds to note that "Conflicts of interest between people closely related by blood or marriage are the commonest, most gut wrenching tragedies of our lives." Then why hasn't evolution found some way to make our lives less tragic? Is it that we are just too young as a species or has this actually contributed to our evolutionary success?
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Margit Alm
5.0 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable book from Jared DiamondReviewed in the United States on August 26, 2017
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I am a bit biased towards Jared Diamond. I simply liking reading his books, his style, the way he analyses and explains, intertwined with lighthearted anecdotes.
This is one of his older books but deals with a timeless topic: evolutionary biology - in this case the evolution of sex.
I found it very informative. It certainly added to my knowledge, and - as with all Jared Diamond books - it makes a good reference.
Anyone interested in evolutionary biology should not miss this book.
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Leib Gershon Mitchell
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good overallReviewed in the United States on July 4, 2007
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There is a bit of overlap in this book with "The Third Chimpanzee," and this is to be expected. (Many of us have noticed that authors tend to cover the same points again and again.) On account of this, it loses one star.
On the good side, this book is very concise and light to read. There are almost no graphs in the book (for maximum simplicity).
The best points:
1. There wwas a good discussion of the process of going about testing a theory/ hypothesis, and though this may need to be read several times to be understood it is something that is interesting to know.
2. There were lots of neat little factoids about animals (such as elephants having 5 sets of teeth over the course of a life).
3. The questions surrouding the function of concealed ovulation were dealt with in a very easy-to-understand way that didn't bog the reader down with excessive technical details.
4. Diamond's beginnings into analyzing the male/ female division of labor were, by far, the best part of the whole book. It was sufficiently quantitative to be believable, but not so much as to be boring.
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black mamba
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look at the mating habits of humans and other speciesReviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014
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The book is very detailed in delving into the oddities of human sexuality. However, he makes some assertions that I find it hard to agree with and this was frustrating, as I have faith in his process.
For Instance, the claim the women have no idea when they are ovulating and men get no physical signals. I disagree with that. Women often know they are ovulating and men certainly know by whatever physical change shows itself to them, whether it be a change in skin tone or pheromones. They circle like sharks, and that is 35 years of life experience talking.
I wish he had delved into the brain operations and introduced some of that, which seemed a glaring oversight.
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babubob
3.0 out of 5 stars A question without an answerReviewed in the United States on December 11, 2007
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I started reading Diamond with Guns, Germs, and Steel and went on to other of his works. While reading "Why Is Sex Fun" we were staying with our daughter, helping her care for a newborn and his comments on the energy expenditure of caring for an infant were enlightening. His writing was insightful and at the same time entertaining, but unless I skipped a page somewhere he fails to answer two questions presented in the advertising - Why is it fun? and Why humans choose privacy for sex? Compared to Guns... and Collapse, this one is a lightweight and not just in the number of pages.
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Evelyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and informative bookReviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016
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I could not put this very interesting downloaded book down and finished it in under five days. Someone wrote in the reviews that this book consists of the juicier parts of another book, "The Third Chimpanzee" by the same author. It explains how humans and our sexual behaviours are different from other animals. The price of the Kindle edition is also extremely reasonable. Buy it now.
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JW
5.0 out of 5 stars Really well written and entertaining science readReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2017
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Fascinating read. A smart man explains complicated things in an approachable way. I found out about it because a colleague assigns it as reading in an evolutionary biology class that he teaches. It's a good read, and will keep your attention to the end. You do get some funny looks on the plane when reading it though thanks to the title and the cover. But, after some embarrassment it led to some good conversations. The only problem was I loaned it to a nice man on the flight home after I finished it and never got it back. I bought another copy because it's one I want to have in the library.
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movedbymortensen
4.0 out of 5 stars they found it all such FUN. There is still a question mark left in ...Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2014
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Jared Diamond continues where Dawkins feared to tread. He has just dissected the reasons why human beings (the Third Chimpanzee) mates continuously, recklessly, pointlessly a lot of the time, when the other members of the animal family use sex for the reason it was 'invented'... namely to reproduce themselves with. Humans have the biggest penises of all the animals in relation to their size... and this MUST be evolution... they found it all such FUN.
There is still a question mark left in the last chapter though.... and for those of you looking for porny pictures.. there aren't any - just pleasant grown-up humour.
Not a page scorcher to keep... but for tucking beside Richard Dawkins... yes.
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Iain S. Palin
4.0 out of 5 stars It's a good question...Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2012
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Sexual reproduction is a key factor in the survival and development of life on Earth, a shuffling of the genetic pack that gives organisms a better chance to deal with evolutionary pressures. That much is almost universally accepted. What Diamond does is take the question to a new level: humans are almost unique in practising "recreational sex", so why do we do it, how did it come about, and what advantages does it offer our species to offset the undoubted raft it problems it creates? And then he answers the questions. While there is inevitably some speculation involved, the result is pretty convincing, as well as being readable and informative. The book is almost light reading, especially after Diamond's larger works on the rise of societies and our modern world ("Guns, Germs, and Steel") and the fall of societies and potentially of our modern world ("Collapse"), but it is not lightweight any more than they are dull. It is Diamond's skill to be neither lightweight nor dull, and this comes through in all that I have read by him. In short, this is another book that is well worth reading.
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Gingham Ribbon
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, informative, entertaining, but flawed.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2009
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Why is sex fun? is interesting, but it lacks an answer to the question posed in the title. The evolution of regular sex during non fertile times, female 'receptivity' regardless of when ovulation takes place, and how menopause may have evolved are all covered in some detail. This is interesting, well thought out and clearly explained. However, there are some glaring omissions and a few stylistic irritations that I found disappointing.
Diamond sets up his explanations with assumptions of what he believes the reader assumes or feels, none of which relate to my own thoughts and opinions and I found being told what I was thinking to be irritating. It also detracts from the interesting points he raises.
The discussion of some of the genetic reasons behind human sexual behaviour is thorough and fascinating. However, the question 'why is sex fun?' is not specifically about behaviour. There is no mention of the 'fun' involved; particularly surprising being the lack of discussion or even mention of orgasm. There are good reasons cited for the amount of sex people have, the reasons for people staying together and the reasons for wanting more than one partner, but absolutely nothing about how or why it is FUN.
I was left still asking the questions I hoped I'd find answers to in the book. Why do women orgasm? for example. There is plenty on females being receptive to sex but nothing on us enjoying it. How do our sexualities develop and define our pleasure? Do other animals have 'fun'? Is it unusual for the female to orgasm? How would our behaviour be different if it was merely a basic drive that wasn't as much 'fun' (like eating or hunting.)
Had the book been differently titled, I wouldn't have been disappointed. I'd have seen it as an excellent collection of theories and facts about human sexual behaviour and how we compare to other animals. But I kept waiting for the title essay to appear and it never did.
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