Author: Cindy M. Meston File Type: pdf An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying womens sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of Americas leading research psychologists Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them. Through the voices of real women, Meston and Buss reveal the motivations that guide womens sexual decisions and explain the deep-seated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive womens desiressometimes in pursuit of health or pleasure, or sometimes for darker, disturbing reasons that a woman may not fully recognize. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Why Women Have Sex uncovers an amazingly complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality. They delve into the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a mates infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts or household chores (resource acquisition), or as a cure for a migraine headache (medication). Why Women Have Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of female sexuality yet achieved and promises to inform every womans (and her partners) awareness of her relationship to sex and her sexuality. **From Publishers Weekly Bringing together some of the interesting (and some not so interesting) research on women and sex, the author explain how Brown University researchers found that how someone smells is the single most important factor in a womans choice of lover Brazilian researchers discovered that women are aroused by men with whom they are genetically compatible. Collating such findings with their own online survey of 1,000 women of diverse backgrounds, the coauthors, psychology professors at the University of Texas at Austin, also discovered that women are sexually motivated by self-confident partners with a good sense of humor. Some women have sex out of feelings of obligation or revenge, to satisfy their curiosity, gain experience and enhance their self-esteem. Sexual activity can also provide health benefitsto relieve migraines and menstrual cramps, reduce the risk of endometriosis and prevent age-related vaginal atrophy. Although solidly researched, this book often treads familiar terrain and comes to fairly obvious conclusions. such as that women have sex to give or get love or a feeling of emotional connection and to enjoy the sensations of sexual arousal and orgasm. (Oct.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Review Occasionally poetic, always candid. The book is filled with insights with which to start conversations.Psychology Today Why Women Have Sex is an endlessly well informed and irresistibly readable book. The candor of the womens responses and the authors knowledge of all that has been happening in the world of sex research for the past few decades combine to make it the most fascinating and illuminating look at female sexuality since Kinseys Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.Mary Roach, author of Bonk The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex What an excellent book! You will come away from reading Why Women Have Sex with a better understanding of what turns women on or off, the physiology underlying desire and arousal, the likely consequences when sex is undertaken to thwart or titillate a partner, and the complexity of sexual desire. There is not much more one can ask forto be at once enlightened and entertained by two trustworthy and sympathetic experts.Sandra R. Leiblum Ph.D., author of Getting the Sex You Want Why Women Have Sex is full of fascinating research that will help everyone better understand and appreciate their sexual selves.Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of The Secret Pleasures of Menopause and The Wisdom of Menopause Why Women Have Sex is a captivating tour of what psychology and biology can tell us about womens sexual motivation. Meston and Buss are first-rate scientists and skilled writers who actually answer the question that everyone was afraid to ask.Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard University, and author of Stumbling on Happiness

Author: Hugh B. Urban File Type: pdf Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (19311990). Most Americans today remember him only as the sex guru and the Rolls Royce guru, who built a hugely successful but scandal-ridden utopian community in central Oregon during the 1980s. Yet Osho was arguably the first truly global guru of the twentieth century, creating a large transnational movement that traced a complex global circuit from post-Independence India of the 1960s to Reagans America of the 1980s and back to a developing new India in the 1990s. The Osho movement embodies some of the most important economic and spiritual currents of the past forty years, emerging and adapting within an increasingly interconnected and conflicted late-capitalist world order. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival research, Hugh Urban has created a rich and powerful narrative that is a must-read for anyone interested in religion and globalization. **Review This book is a must. . . . Smoothly written and accessible, without bias. (OshoNews 2016-03-12) From the Inside Flap This is a marvelous book, displaying theoretical sophistication, mature erudition, critical balance, archival and ethnographic hard work, and a fluid engaging writing style. It will make a major contribution to the study and analysis of modern charismatic guru movements.Jeffrey Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Rice University Balancing personal interviews, archival work, and Oshos own voice,Zorba the Buddhagives a vibrant sense of the community of devotees, as well as the sentiments of ex-devotees, without being dragged into the mire of their contested debates. Urban has worked impressively with very difficult materials and productively engaged a highly controversial and often contradictory figure. This book is a pleasure to read.Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion, University of California, Riverside