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How The Quest For Sex Has Shaped The Modern Man
Avery
June 2008
On Sale: June 12, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 1583333126
EAN: 9781583333129
Hardcover
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A smart, witty, and fresh look at the male side of the
male-female relationship from a science writer and sex
columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Beginning with a “boot camp” for wannabe pickup
artists—where men pay thousands of dollars for three days of
classroom seminars on how to get women into bed—Faye Flam’s
quest for a deeper understanding of men takes her back
through the evolutionary history of the human male.
Sweeping from the birth of the first male and female
organisms to the sexual foibles of twenty-first-century
humans, Flam shows how a small difference in the size of the
first sperm and eggs set off a war between the sexes that
we’re still fighting today. Since this primordial split, a
consistent pattern of behavior has emerged: males use a
stunning variety of strategies to make themselves attractive
to females, and females put them through the
wringer.
By placing the human male in the context of
the natural world, Flam highlights some intriguing
resemblances among males of all species, but also the unique
challenges that men face when courting women—whether for a
lifelong partnership or a one-night stand. Flam ultimately
reveals that millions of years of evolution have left the
love lives of humans suspended somewhere between monogamy
and promiscuity, and that it is this eons-old tension
between males and females that has created the modern man.
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