Why Is Sex Fun?
By Jared Diamond
The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Basic Books, 1998.
Summary of Why Is Sex Fun? book by Jared Diamond
A thorough, engaging scientific study of how humans evolved to have a remarkably distinct form of sexuality, including comparisons of the substantial differences between us and the animal world.
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What do you get from this book? A scientific look at how humans evolved an extremely particular form of sexuality
Normal sexuality in the animal world highlights how bizarre our sex lives really are
Humanity has evolved to require both men and women’s input to raise children
Men don’t breastfeed because they evolved to have less energy invested as fathers
Recreational sex is humanity’s answer to a woman’s hidden ovulation cycles
While people believe that a man’s role is to protect and provide, science questions if that’s true
Women stop being fertile relatively early in life so they can nurse and raise the children they already have
Both men and women send signals to each other that make us attractive as sexual partners
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- Behavioral psychologists
- medical professionals
- sociologists
- people interested in sexuality
- anthropology students
About the author of Why Is Sex Fun?
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has written several books on human evolution, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee. Diamond is currently a professor of geography at UCLA and has won the MacArthur Fellows Award and the National Medal of Science for his academic achievements.
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