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What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently Paperback - 1999
by Townsend, John Marshall
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Offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what they look for in a mate.
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- Title What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently
- Author Townsend, John Marshall
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York, NY
- Date 1999-04-22
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0508402
- ISBN 9780195131031 / 0195131037
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.46 x 0.77 in (21.54 x 13.87 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 1250
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code 155.33
Summary
Following the work of E. O. Wilson, Desmond Morris, and David Buss, What Women Want--What Men Want offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament ofmarriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions. Drawing upon 2000 questionnaires and 200 intimate interviews that show how our sexual psychologies affect everyday decisions, John Townsend argues against the prevailing ideologically correct belief that differences in sexual behavior are "culturally constructed." Townsend shows there aredeep-seated desires inherited from our evolutionary past that guide our actions. In a fascinating series of experiments, men and women were asked to indicate preferences for potential mates based on their attractiveness and apparent economic status...
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