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Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles |  | Author: Robin Baker
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 35548
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1560258489
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.736
EAN: 9781560258483
ASIN: 1560258489
Publication Date: January 3, 2006
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Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, Sperm Wars is a revolutionary thesis about sex that turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolize women while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic input on offer from potential sexual partners. In this book, best-selling author Robin Baker reveals these new facts of life: ten percent of children are not fathered by their "fathers;" less than one percent of a mans sperm is capable of fertilizing anything (the rest is there to fight off all other mens sperm); "smart" vaginal mucus encourages some sperm but blocks others; and a woman is far more likely to conceive through a casual fling than through sex with her regular partner. Its no wonder that Sperm Wars is a classic of popular science writing that will surprise, entertain, and even shock.
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 Updated Book Even Better than the First! January 10, 2006
StraightRazr.com: A Comprehensive Lifestyle Coaching Resource for Men. (Oakland, CA USA)
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
This updated version of Baker's landmark book has provided readers with updated statistics, new research that further proves that attraction and passion has less to do with flowers and more to do with chemical reactions actually taking place within the body.
Baker's research and analysis will give men pause, and realize how important it is to integrate the best of the 'bad boy' into the terrific, redeeming qualities of a great, confident man!
I wish these books were out 10 years ago!
- GiddyupGuy.com
Eye-opening revelations April 2, 2006
M. Kienker (Aurora, Colorado)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
I like to pride myself of having a good understanding of male-female sexual behavior and of sexual biology, but this book blew my mind! I had no idea sperm behaved in this way and the degree to which our urges are control by our biology. I usually find science-based books detailing studies and statistics to be a big bore. But the combination of fictional dramatization of scenes of people in specific sexual situations followed by the real-world scientific explanations behind such behaviors, made the book irresistable. I couldn't put it down!!
To those questioning the science, you're wrong. February 10, 2008
Mike Galos (Bellevue, WA USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
To those who are rather desperately clinging on to their world view despite this book (and it's 1996 earlier version) by criticizing it for lack of scientific rigor, you should realize that this is the popular press version of Baker and Bellis' research and not the academic text. The subject matter is only contoversial by its socially explosive conclusions and not by any questions of its science.
If you really want the solid data to convince you that virtually everything you want to believe is wrong, you should get a copy of Human Sperm Competition: Copulation, Masturbation and Infidelity which is the academic text of their groundbreaking research.
The proper scientific documentation really is there. Our physiology is wildly more complex than most people had believed and clearly did not develop in a sexually pair bonded environment.
Probing the mysteries of female sexuality May 13, 2007
Tom King (East Tennessee)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
We all marvel at the unpredictable nature of female sexuality, and often wonder why women do the things that they do, and are equaly shocked at the things they DON'T do. Why are women so crazy about teenaged boys that they will risk life and limb to be with them sexualy ( i.e-the current huge runaway phenominon of female teachers having illicit relationships with their male teen students ), while they all but totaly ignore men over 20? Why do women suffer such sexual attention span deficit one day and are at least as sexual as any man the next? Are women truly less attracted to men than men are to women? Why is the realm of female sexuality such a matrix of insanity and seemingly bizzare behaviour? Why can't women explain what they really want?
The answers to these questions will shock you....and are contained within the brilliant, extensively researched pages of this book. It will not only give you more insight into the dynamics of female sexuality, but will give you more understanding of your own male sexual physiology as well. Reproduction is truly EVERYTHING !!!! Sex is life itself, and the importance of this transference of life from one generation to the next is a staggering existence we take totaly for granted. Not after you read this book!!! You will never view reproduction the same again.
programmed sexual robots April 20, 2008
M. Landers (New York)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Uncompromising, cynical and probably correct. Humans are robots programmed by evolutionary sexual strategies. Expect programmed behavior from others. Know thyself or be a robot.
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