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What Do Women Want?: Adventures In The Science Of Female Desire (2013)

by Daniel Bergner(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062249088 (ISBN13: 9780062249081)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Ecco

review 1: The science in this book gets 5 stars but the author's attempt at social critique based on the science was just as biased as the views he was arguing against. Yes, there are women who don't find sex with a long term partner as appealing as they once did. Yes, there are studies that suggest women are more interested in casual sex and variety of partners than has been believed. However, these two facts do NOT mean that all women are going to become disgusted by and anorgasmic with their spouses. I really do hate when popular science writing tries to preach--it's barely a step away from the kind of dating self-help books like "He's Just Not That into You." Plus, and this is just a personal thing, I found Bergner's need to describe every single scientist he interviewed with a ... morefew physical features to be just this side of creepy. Do I really need to know that the person who ran this study has a nose ring and a goatee, or luminous blue eyes and animated speech patterns? This is NOT the way to personalize scientists!
review 2: This book will not tell you what women want, and especially, what each individual woman wants. But it is a great conversation-starter for this topic. it's great for self-reflection and for conversations with other women. The chapter on narcissistic desire (desire to be desired) was especially interesting, but it also revealed the oddity of (female) desire: the world of fantasy as a path to arousal and sexual desire, but not as something one would actually want to experience in reality. What a prank the mind plays which allows for desire when in sole privacy, but deprives of the same when a similar situation is encountered. less

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