Ebook: X and why: the rules of attraction: why gender still matters

Intro; Title; Contents; Introduction; 1 Priapus: The predatory male; 2 Aphrodite: Woman and suppressed sexuality; 3 Mars: Man red in tooth and claw; 4 Venus: The benefits of promiscuity; the deceptiveness of fertility; 5 Zeus: A king's legacy is a queen's burden; 6 Achilles: The fatal flaw, and the love between men; 7 Diana: Lesbians, bisexuals and fluidity; 8 Hedone: The female orgasm and the paradox of pleasure; 9 Hera: The power, and wrath, of the older woman; 10 Ishtar: Misfits and inbetweeners: the hidden history of transgenderism; 11 Hymen: The mystery of marriage;Were we ever designed to be a monogamous species? Is it true that all women are bisexual? Is testosterone to blame for making men monsters? This is a book about the place where biology meets behaviour and where sexual differences in our bodies most closely translate into gender differences in the mind. In this timely twenty-first century reboot of the seminal bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus, Whipple travels far and wide from a gay penguin sanctuary in Germany to the headquarters of the world's biggest online dating agency in New York and draws on the latest studies in behavioural science as well as fascinating explorations into anthropology to produce a surprising tale of expectations and mismatches. If you are currently single, this book is about your place in the dating market your successes, your failures and what they mean. If you are married, it is about why you chose the person you are with, why they chose you and the circumstances in which either of you might put it all at risk and stray.