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Why Is Sex Fun?

Why Is Sex Fun?

By Jared Diamond

The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Basic Books, 1998.

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A brief summary of Why Is Sex Fun?

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.

Key insights in Why Is Sex Fun?

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What do you get from this book? A scientific look at how humans evolved an extremely particular form of sexuality
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Normal sexuality in the animal world highlights how bizarre our sex lives really are
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Humanity has evolved to require both men and women’s input to raise children
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Men don’t breastfeed because they evolved to have less energy invested as fathers
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Recreational sex is humanity’s answer to a woman’s hidden ovulation cycles
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While people believe that a man’s role is to protect and provide, science questions if that’s true
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Women stop being fertile relatively early in life so they can nurse and raise the children they already have
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Both men and women send signals to each other that make us attractive as sexual partners
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Why Is Sex Fun?

Behavioral psychologists • medical professionals • sociologists • people interested in sexuality • anthropology students • zoologists

About the author of Why Is Sex Fun?

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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