The score : how the quest for sex has shaped the modern man / Faye Flam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flam, Faye.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Psychology.

Men.

Men--Sexual behavior.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Avery, [2008]

Summary:

"Beginning with a "boot camp" for wannabe pickup artists - where men pay $2,150. for three days of classroom seminars on how to get women into bed - Faye Flam's pursuit of a deeper understanding of men takes her back through the evolutionary history of the human male." From the bookjacket.

Contents:

The mystery : what pickup artists reveal about the natural world

Let there be sexes : why the origin of the sexes changed everything

Competing for females : how the quest for sex made men different from women

Sex drive : why some males will risk life and limb for sex

The genetics of men : how the y chromosome came about and what it tells us about the future of men

Private parts : everything you ever wanted to know about phallology

Testosterone : how to make a man, and some things that can go awry in the process

The secret lives of sperm : what sperm want and how they can manipulate both men and women

Are men scum? : pornography and casual sex in perspective

Beauty of beasts : how the quest for sex gave rise to beauty

Alpha and beta : how sex breeds the hunger for power and how some males circumvent the tyranny

Who's your daddy? : fatherly males and the sex appeal of mr. mom

Sexual outlaws : homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, and the power of diversity in the game of life

Why males are necessary : not for survival, but for reproduction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index.

ISBN:

9781583333129

1583333126

OCLC:

221960297