Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality (Science Masters Series) - Hardcover

Diamond, Jared M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465031277 ISBN 13: 9780465031276

Publisher: Basic Books, 1997

Synopsis

An entertaining and informative study of human sexuality explores how and why humans' sex lives differ radically from those of other animals and examines the evolutionary forces and factors that have shaped human sexual distinctions.

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Review:

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.

About the Author:

Jared Diamond is a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0465031277
• ISBN 13: 9780465031276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176