Book of the week: What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner

Journalist Daniel Bergner reduces the modern stereotypes of female sexuality to rubble.

(Ecco, $26)

Warning: The research that this book lays out “threatens to disrupt all the modern stereotypes of female sexuality,” said Amanda Hess in Slate.com. No matter how much power women wield today in public life, in the bedroom they’re still presumed to want sex less than men do, to be far more inclined to monogamy, and to value emotional connection more than physical pleasure. But in a “fascinating survey” that mines cultural history, evolutionary psychology, and current sex research, journalist Daniel Bergner has reduced those ideas to rubble. A woman’s sex drive is limited not by biology, he tells us, but by social taboos.

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