Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 The Mystery: What Pickup Artists Reveal About the Natural World 1
2 Let There Be Sexes: Why the Origin of the Sexes Changed Everything 7
3 Competing for Females: How the Quest For Sex Made Men Different From Women 19
4 Sex Drive: Why Some Males Will Risk Life and Limb For Sex 27
5 The Genetics of Men: How the Y Chromosome Came About and What it Tells us About the Future of Men 43
6 Private Parts: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Phallology 61
7 Testosterone: How to Make a Man, and Some Things That Can Go Awry in the Process 77
8 The Secret Lives of Sperm: What Sperm Want and How They Can Manipulate Both Men and Women 93
9 Are Men Scum?: Pornography and Casual Sex in Perspective 101
10 Beauty and Beasts: How the Quest For Sex Gave Rise to Beauty 117
11 Alpha and Beta: Sex, Power, and the Decline of the Alpha Male 131
12 Who's Your Daddy?: Fatherly Males and the Sex Appeal of Mr. Mom 143
13 Sexual Outlaws: Homosexuals, Bisexuals, Transsexuals, and the Power of Diversity in the Game of Life 155
14 Why Males are Necessary: Not for Survival, But for Reproduction 175
Conclusion 183
Who We are
Sources and References 187
Index 207