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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
An Invitation to Impropriety
Part I. Darwinizing What Dangles
How Are They Hanging? This Is Why They Are
So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The Contorted History of Autofellatio
Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? The Extended Cut
Not So Fast … What’s So “Premature” About Premature Ejaculation?
An Ode to the Many Evolved Virtues of Human Semen
Part II. Bountiful Bodies
The Hair Down There: What Human Pubic Hair Has in Common with Gorilla Fur
Bite Me: The Natural History of Cannibalism
The Human Skin Condition: Acne and the Hairless Ape
Part III. Minds in the Gutter
Naughty by Nature: When Brain Damage Makes People Very, Very Randy
How the Brain Got Its Buttocks: Medieval Mischief in Neuroanatomy
Lascivious Zombies: Sex, Sleepwalking, Nocturnal Genitals—and You
Humans Are Special and Unique: We Masturbate. A Lot
Part IV. Strange Bedfellows
Pedophiles, Hebephiles, and Ephebophiles, Oh My: Erotic Age Orientation
Animal Lovers: Zoophiles Make Scientists Rethink Human Sexuality
Asexuals Among Us
Foot Play: Podophilia for Prudes
A Rubber Lover’s Tale
Part V. Ladies’ Night
Female Ejaculation: A Scientific Road Less Traveled
Studying the Elusive “Fag Hag”: Women Who Like Men Who Like Men
Darwin’s Mystery Theater Presents … The Case of the Female Orgasm
The Bitch Evolved: Why Are Girls So Cruel to Each Other?
Part VI. The Gayer Science: There’s Something Queer Here
Never Ask a Gay Man for Directions
“Single, Angry, Straight Male … Seeks Same”: Homophobia as Repressed Desire
Baby-Mama Drama-less Sex: How Gay Heartbreak Rains on the Polyamory Parade
Top Scientists Get to the Bottom of Gay Male Sex Role Preferences
Is Your Child a “Pre-homosexual”? Forecasting Adult Sexual Orientation
Part VII. For the Bible Tells Me So
Good Christians (but Only on Sundays)
God’s Little Rabbits: Believers Outreproduce Nonbelievers by a Landslide
Planting Roots with My Dead Mother
Part VIII. Into the Deep: Existential Lab Work
Being Suicidal: Is Killing Yourself Adaptive? That Depends: Suicide for Your Genes’ Sake (Part I)
Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself (Part II)
“Scientists Say Free Will Probably Doesn’t Exist, Urge ‘Don’t Stop Believing!’”
The Rat That Wouldn’t Stop Laughing: Joy and Mirth in the Animal Kingdom
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Jesse Bering, Ph.D.
About the Author
Copyright
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