num_pages: 214
description: Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year ' including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality seems normal to us but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals. Jared Diamond argues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as were our large brains. He also describes the battle of the sexes in the human and animal world over parental care, and why sex differences in the genetic value of parental care provide a biological basis for the all-too-familiar different attitudes of men and women towards extramarital sex.
language: English
title: Why is Sex Fun?
titlecomplete: Why is Sex Fun? (Science Masters)
genres: Anthropology, Popular Science, Biology, History, Science, Sociology, Sexuality, Psychology, Nonfiction, Evolution
ratings_count: 6653
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prismas Casa de las Ciencias a la Divulgación
category: Libro editado
publisher: Phoenix Paperbacks