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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution Of Human Sexuality

Hardcover • 1997 • English

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution Of Human Sexuality

By Jared M. Diamond

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About the book

To humans, the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be? We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human female doesn't know her precise time of fertility and certainly doesn't advertise it ...Show more

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9780465031276

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution Of Human Sexuality

Format

Hardcover

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