Why is Sex Fun? : Evolution of Human Sexuality (Abridged ed)

In Why is Sex Fun? Jared Diamond argues that, in our evolutionary history, humans' strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as our upright posture and large brain.

He explores questions such as, 'Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private?

Why do human have sex any day of the month or year? Why are human females one of the only mammals to go through the menopause?' Diamond concludes that, by the standards of the world's 4,300 species, we are the ones that are bizarre. Why is Sex Fun? is a delightfully entertaining and enlightening account of the evolutionary forces that have shaped our sex lives: of the book Diane Ackerman writes that it offers 'fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they do'.