What Do Women Want?

Daniel Bergner dismantles the myth of passive female desire, revealing through laboratory studies and intimate interviews that women's sexuality is far more aggressive, varied, and culturally suppressed than conventional wisdom admits. From brain imaging research tracking arousal patterns to the erosion of desire within monogamy, Bergner exposes how gender roles and binary norms have constrained what women allow themselves to want. His investigation spans neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and the politics of sexual freedom.

You'll learn:

- How monogamy systematically diminishes female desire over time

- Why fantasies function as identity-defining tools, not mere escapism

- What brain imaging reveals about arousal's emotional architecture