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Subtitled THE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, LOVE AND MARRIAGE this groundbreaking and controversial book is a massively informed yet highly entertaining study of the evolution and nature of sexual desire. Arguing that our sexuality is the result of three interlocking forces - gender, culture and constitution - Simon Andreae examines the process through which we become straight or gay, grow up to desire blondes or brunettes, breasts or buttocks, people who do or don't look like our parents, and sex which is wild or tame. In the process he confronts some of the most fascinating questions which underpin all our lives: why do men and women fantasise about different things, what's so special about one person and not another, and why do we fall in (and out) of love Whether he is discussing the science of the gay gene, the flagellatory impulses of the Christian clergy, the value of vibrators, or the escapades of a lovesick medieval baron, Andreae digs to the root of the human sex-drive and explores it in lucid and compelling prose.

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'Fizzy, provocative and hugely sensible' - Anthony Clare, THE OBSERVER 'This is just about everything you might want to know about human sexuality from our happy hunter-gathering days through the ongoing ordeals of monotheism to today's Alpha male trapped in his Oval Office by desire. This splendid guide to our mating habits belongs in every household...a true vade-mecum.' - GORE VIDAL

Fizzy, provocative and hugely sensible - Anthony Clare, The OBSERVER This is just about everything you might want to know about human sexuality from our happy hunter-gathering days through the ongoing ordeals of monotheism to today's Alpha male trapped in his Oval Office by desire. This splendid guide to our mating habit - GORE VIDAL

Shattering dissection of sexual influences which expands to present human history in a new light. Andreae demonstrates that the trappings of Western marriage are not the hallmarks of romance, but 'hark back to a bloody history of fear and punishment'. (Kirkus UK)

Fizzy, provocative and hugely sensible Anthony Clare, The OBSERVER This is just about everything you might want to know about human sexuality from our happy hunter-gathering days through the ongoing ordeals of monotheism to today's Alpha male trapped in his Oval Office by desire. This splendid guide to our mating habit GORE VIDAL

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Simon Andreae is a journalist & t.v. producer, whose series include The Nature of the American Presidency & The Global History of Food. Beyond Love (1995), examining extreme sexual obsessions, was described by THE TIMES as 'the most talked about documentary of the year'.

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