Why Women Have Sex (52 page)

Hawley, Patricia,
207

headaches,
236–38

height,
10–11

Heiman, Julia,
47

Hicks, Ed,
216

Hicks, Sandra,
216

high blood pressure,
130

high-status partners,
91–92
,
199–200
,
205

Hinemoa,
50

Hitch
,
69

Holmberg, Allan R.,
188

honest courtship,
213

hookers,
177
.
See also
prostitution

hooking up,
184–85

hormones

bonding and,
69–70

depression and,
248–49
,
252

pregnancy and,
127

sexual desire and,
122
,
124–26

Hughes, Susan,
17

Human Sexual Response, The
(Masters and Johnson),
xiv

humor,
20–22

hunting,
187–89

hygiene, poor,
131

hymenoplasty,
151–52

hymens,
151–52

hysterectomy,
34–35
,
125

immune system functioning,
259–60

impotence,
191–92

impulsiveness,
164
,
165

Indecent Proposal
,
181

India’s Most Wanted
,
182

infatuation love,
54

infertility,
114

infibulation,
105–6

infidelity,
7
,
8
,
11
,
114–16
,
165

insomnia,
244–45

intimacy,
51–52
.
See also
emotional connection

Iran,
174

Islamic cultures,
104–5
,
150

It’s No Secret
(Bryan),
92

Iverson, Allen,
92

Jay-Z,
16
,
92

jealousy

cross-cultural studies of,
101–2

extreme responses to,
103–4

as a functional adaptation,
100
,
102–3

intentional provocation of,
99
,
106–9

sexual competition and,
xvii–xviii
,
99
,
104

Johnson, Virginia E.

on gender empathy,
154

laboratory sex research of,
xiv

on orgasm in women,
37
,
38
,
39
,
42

on penis size,
155

on sex during menstruation,
240

on spectatoring,
241

Jones, James Earl,
17

Judaism,
138

Khan, Genghis.
See
Genghis Khan

Kinsey, Alfred C.,
xiii–xiv
,
33
,
36–37
,
147
,
159

kissing,
68–69

Kissinger, Henry,
23

Koch, Patricia Barthalow,
195–96

labia,
31

Lane, Penny,
92

Langlois, Judith,
15

Leiblum, Sandra,
125–26

lesbian couples,
134–35

Let’s Spend the Night Together
(Des Barres),
92

Levin, Roy,
252

Levine, Robert,
59

Leviticus,
73
,
74

Levitra,
33

Levy, Ariel,
166

Liebowitz, Michael,
56

life expectancy,
257–59

liking love,
54

Lim, Miranda,
72

Lincoln, Abraham,
50

Livy,
231

loneliness,
xxi
,
253–56

long-term mates

and high shoulder-to-hip ratio,
11

and mutual attraction and love,
58–59

physical appearance and,
81
,
83

sexual competition for,
89–91
,
93

long-term relationships

consensual unwanted sexual intercourse in,
117–21
,
136–39
,
141

sexual abuse in,
225–29

sexual desire in,
117–21
,
133–34
,
136–39
,
162

sexual experience and,
160

LoPiccolo, Joseph,
47

love

Aristophanes’ definition of,
66

“at first sight,”
59
,
60
,
247–48

bonding and,
75–77

brain activity and,
55–56

components of,
51–54

gender and duration of,
59–60

passionate,
55
,
56–57
,
58

romantic,
50–51
,
54
,
58

sex and,
60–64
,
65

universality of,
57
,
58–59

love map,
26

major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes,
6–7

make-up sex,
66–67
,
243

makeup,
82–83

Malays,
176

male-male competition,
79

male pheromones,
8–9

Marazziti, Donatella,
56

marriage

love and,
59

in the Oneida Community,
58

rape in,
225–27

sex as a duty in,
138–39

sexual economics within,
187
,
189–90

Martin, Clyde E.,
xiii–xiv

Masters, William H.

on gender empathy,
154

laboratory sex research of,
xiv

on orgasm in women,
37
,
38
,
39
,
42

on penis size,
155

on sex during menstruation,
240

on spectatoring,
241

masturbation

depression and,
251

directed,
46

endometriosis and,
240

gender differences in,
33

during medieval times,
147

orgasm during,
42–44

sexual variation and,
xiii

matching hypothesis,
25–26

mate copying,
24–25

mate guarding,
109–14
,
188

mate poaching,
92–97

maternal bonding,
70

mayakkam,
52

McCartney, Paul,
92

McFarland, Jimi,
21

Mead, Margaret,
100

media,
81
,
196–97

medication, sexual desire and,
129–30

Mehinaku,
188

melatonin,
249

Mellaril,
130

menopause,
124

menstruation,
9
,
239–40
,
248

Mesnick, Sarah,
232

MHC genes.
See
major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes

Middle East,
94–95

migraine headaches,
237–38

Mihalko, Reid,
69

Moberg, Kerstin Uvnäs,
90

Money, John,
26

monogamy,
71–72

Monroe, Marilyn,
181–82

mons pubis,
42

montane voles,
71
,
72

Moore, Demi,
181

Mormons,
58

movement, body,
17–19

Muria,
110

muscularity,
12

mutation load,
7–8

mutïa,
174

Myanmar,
176