The Evolution of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating

Feminists hate this book, the politically correct call it chauvinistic - both indicators of a book a thinking person should read. And it is, a must-read by my standards. Buss spells it out for all of us - we are biological sex machines; genes making us have pre-programmed us to prefer certain things......more

The Evolution of Desire is indeed quite interesting. Data shows that in the sexual selection process, humans choose between temporary (casual) and long-term (co-parenting) and use many strategies to attract and keep a mate. For the most part, men want casual sex with a young, beautiful child- bearin......more

Kind of boring. Keeps repeating the same thing over and over a million different ways: men and women use different (and not so surprising) strategies to maximize their own resources (be it sex, social status, wealth, etc.). Sometimes draws too many conclusions from crappy college student surveys. Si......more

Looking at the author's picture, pretty nice genetic package there. Sure I'd do him, provided he makes six figures and is five+ years older than me. Also, since neither of us would be interested in marriage, I'd require a hefty mistress fee via lots of expensive presents. /sarcasm I'm not sure how mu......more

The entire book is premised on the belief that people will be honest with themselves when answering questions about relationships. It is very depressing. Most of the book is persons making excuses for bad relationship choices based on a child's understanding of evolution.......more