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Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeography, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
 dealing with the evolution
Evolution

In biology, evolution is change in the heritability trait of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection....
ary development of human sexuality
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
. Diamond addresses some peculiar aspects of human sexuality. These include why women's ovulation
Ovulation

Ovulation is the process in the menstrual cycle by which a mature ovarian follicle ruptures and discharges an ovum that participates in reproduction....
 is not overtly advertised; why humans have sex in private rather than in public, as is the case in all other mammals; and why the ovaries are u-shaped. The book came five years after Diamond's previous work The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal , originally published in English in 1991 as The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live , is a non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist, physiologist and Pulitzer Award-winning author....
 and was published in the same year as the well known title Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
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Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeography, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
 dealing with the evolution
Evolution

In biology, evolution is change in the heritability trait of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection....
ary development of human sexuality
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
. Diamond addresses some peculiar aspects of human sexuality. These include why women's ovulation
Ovulation

Ovulation is the process in the menstrual cycle by which a mature ovarian follicle ruptures and discharges an ovum that participates in reproduction....
 is not overtly advertised; why humans have sex in private rather than in public, as is the case in all other mammals; and why the ovaries are u-shaped. The book came five years after Diamond's previous work The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal , originally published in English in 1991 as The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live , is a non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist, physiologist and Pulitzer Award-winning author....
 and was published in the same year as the well known title Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
. It is dedicated to his wife Marie.

Synopsis

The book has seven chapters on various aspects of human sexuality. The comparative method is often used, comparing humans with other animals.

Chapters

  1. The animal with the weirdest sex life
  2. Battle of the sexes
  3. Why don't men breast-feed their babies? The non-evolution of male lactation
  4. Wrong time for love: the evolution of recreational sex
  5. What are men good for? The evolution of men's roles
  6. Making more by making less: the evolution of female menopause
  7. Truth in advertising: the evolution of body signals.


The book ends with a list of further reading, consisting of both books and scientific articles, for those who wish to learn more about the subject.

See also

  • Animal sexuality
    Animal sexuality

    Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, even within the same species. Researchers have observed monogamy, promiscuity, sex between species, sexual arousal from objects or places, rape, necrophilia, homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality sexual behaviour, and situational sexual behaviour and a range of other practices among...
  • Concealed ovulation
    Concealed ovulation

    Human females have concealed ovulation or hidden estrus. Most female animals show distinctive signs when they are "estrous". These include swelling and redness of the genitalia in baboons and bonobos, pheromone release in the feline family, etc....
  • Lactation
    Lactation

    Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands, the process of providing that milk to the young, and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young....
  • Men
    MEN

    The abbreviation MEN can refer to:* Multiple endocrine neoplasia* Manchester Evening News* Manchester Evening News Arena* Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Poland - Ministerstwo Edukaji Narodowej...
  • Menopause
    Menopause

    The Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation which occurs a considerable length of time before the end of the lifespan.The word was first applied to humans, and because of this it literally means the cessation of monthly cycles or menstrual cycles, from the Greek roots meno and pausis ....
  • Sexual conflict
    Sexual conflict

    Sexual conflict occurs when the two sexes have conflicting optimal fitness strategies concerning reproduction, leading to evolutionary arms race between males and females....
  • Signalling theory
    Signalling theory

    Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory refers to a body of Theory#Theories as "models" work examining communication between individuals....


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