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Love, Sex, and Science

By: Scientific American
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
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Sometimes All You Need Is Love; sometimes Love Is a Battlefield. Whether Love Hurts, Bites, Will Keep Us Together, Will Tear Us Apart, or Is a Four-Letter Word, it seems we Want to Know What Love Is.

Love - in both the abstract and the up-close-and-personal - has always provided limitless inspiration for artists, writers, and musicians, but scientists are just as fascinated by these affairs of the heart, though they seldom sing about it. In Love, Sex, and Science, our editors take a step back, analyzing romance using tools like fMRI studies instead of a paint brush or guitar. The writers examine a variety of topics, starting with the perceived sex differences between men and women discussed in Section 1 - are we really as different as Mars and Venus?

We also don’t shy away from darker aspects of love, such as the psychology of prostitution and sex appeal of narcissists, because to ignore these aspects of love is to trivialize it. Besides, love’s paradoxes are one of the reasons why it is the topic for cultural discourse. As Pascal said, “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” Hopefully this audiobook will change the “nothing” to “at least something”. 

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Informative

Very informative about every aspect of human sex, love relationship from a science point of view. Recommend as an initial reading

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Good Content / Terrible Narrator

The narrator sounded like a stuffy, old, librarian. It was a terrible idea to have an old lady narrate a book about the science of attraction, love, and sex. The science was interesting, but the narrator’s voice was like fingernails on a chalk board.

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  • 01-09-23

Narrator is awful

Possibly informative book ruined by narrator delivering in dull monotone, such a shame, could have been a good listen

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  • Bee bee
  • 02-28-22

Highly recommended

Very interesting. Factual (referral to scientific publishing). Sutible for both some with or without scientific background. Found all they chapter insightful.

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  • Michael Grierson
  • 01-26-22

Facts abound on emotional subjects

There were many facts brought forward from studies regarding biological studies and focused surveys conducted over the years on many specific aspects of love and sex. I'm glad I've listened to this.

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  • 09-08-22

the first part is not scientific at all

I just don't see the point of reiterating a sad depressing narrative that men are superficial it's just depressing. I think it's sad and a bit misantrhopic to assume that men care about visuals as general thing because it's depressing & people have intelligence. I'm referring to the part about the men that apparently saw it as a bonus if their platonic female friends were attractive because they could potentially sleep with them. The study was so vague it's honestly terrible and an outdated view so please stop normalizing it. If women were more likely to respect that their attractive male friends weren't single and therefore less likely to pursue a romantic relationship from them I literally see no reason men can't do the same (as many do already). I'm not listening to any more of these "scientific" studies

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