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What women want

You are the woman of the Other and I desire you: "Thus, women are unfaithful, even if they are faithful. They are essentially unfaithful". For the love of the muse: Scott Barry Kaufman on how the mating motive can spark creativity, but interacting with women makes men stupid. Why do men catcall? Screaming at women about their appearances is street harassment. Despicable, yes, but not inexplicable: A review of Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females by Martin Muller. Darwinian psychology meets the female body: A review of Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography and Hannah Holmes' The Well-Dressed Ape. A review of Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy Meston and David Buss (and more and more and more and more). A look at why some women prefer casual sex to dating. David Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, authors of How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories, on female sexual mysteries. An interview with Alison Huang on the sexuality of older women. The fatwa on fake-virginity kits: Conservative Muslims try to ban a device designed to fool men on their wedding nights. Daddy's girl: A non-obvious explanation for why girls without fathers have sex earlier. Can stripping be “empowering”?: Sirens investigates the allure of taking it off. Elvis, my old boss, and other lead players in sexual fantasies: Welcome to "The Desire Lab". What women want, according to Match.com: It helps to be a nonexistent composite of masculine archetypes.