Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)

Do women have sex simply to express love, experience pleasure, or reproduce? when clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate women's underlying sexual motivations, what they found astonished them.

Using women's own words, and backed by extensive scientific evidence, the authors delve into the use of sex to defend against a mate's infidelity, to boost social status, to barter for household chores, and even to cure a migraine headache. Why Women have Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of women's sexuality and promises to inform every woman's (and her partner's) awareness of her relationship to sex.