Robert King

Naturally Selective (eBook, PDF)

Evolution, Orgasm, and Female Choice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Researchers of human behaviour have identified an 'orgasm gap': Men usually orgasm during intercourse, whereas women often do not. The two leading explanations are either that women are "psychologically broken" - Freud's theory - or badly designed - the "by-product theory." However, there is a more compelling third explanation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003850700
• Artikelnr.: 70068171

Autorenporträt

Robert King is a psychology lecturer at University College Cork, in the school of Applied Psychology. He lectures on social and biological psychology-especially in the field of human sexual behaviour-as well as on the history and philosophy of science, research methods, statistics, and behavioural genetics. He is the co-director of the Masters in Mental Health which has close ties to local health care providers, and he participates in the clinical courses. King writes an (almost) monthly column for Psychology Today which typically gets over 30k reads when he blogs about sexual behavior ( http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hive-mind ). He also also writes for Quillette online journal about the same topics. Quillette articles typically get 2m+ hits and has a subscribed base of 70k (https://quillette.com/author/robert-king/ ) King published in the peer reviewed literature on human sexual behavior, especially female orgasm, in several journals, including the highest impact factor journal in the field of human sexual behaviour-namely Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Coy Females?
Chapter 3 Sex: The Genes-Eye View
Chapter 4 Ethology: How to Understand Any Trait
Chapter 5 The Two Traditions of Female Orgasm Research
Chapter 6 "The Lady Vanishes"
Chapter 7 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Chapter 8 The Myth of the Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
Chapter 9 Picky, Picky, Picky
Chapter 10 Getting Cross about Culture
Chapter 11 The Battles, and Truces, of the Sexes
References
Index