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Part I Darwinizing What Dangles |
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How Are They Hanging? This Is Why They Are |
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So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The Contorted History of Autofellatio |
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11 | (6) |
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Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? The Extended Cut |
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17 | (11) |
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Not So Fast... What's So "Premature" About Premature Ejaculation? |
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28 | (6) |
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An Ode to the Many Evolved Virtues of Human Semen |
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34 | (11) |
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The Hair Down There: What Human Pubic Hair Has in Common with Gorilla Fur |
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45 | (6) |
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Bite Me: The Natural History of Cannibalism |
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51 | (8) |
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The Human Skin Condition: Acne and the Hairless Ape |
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59 | (8) |
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Part III Minds in the Gutter |
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Naughty by Nature: When Brain Damage Makes People Very, Very Randy |
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67 | (7) |
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How the Brain Got Its Buttocks: Medieval Mischief in Neuroanatomy |
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74 | (4) |
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Lascivious Zombies: Sex, Sleepwalking, Nocturnal Genitals---and You |
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78 | (7) |
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Humans Are Special and Unique: We Masturbate. A Lot |
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85 | (16) |
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Part IV Strange Bedfellows |
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Pedophiles, Hebephiles, and Ephebophiles, Oh My: Erotic Age Orientation |
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101 | (10) |
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Animal Lovers: Zoophiles Make Scientists Rethink Human Sexuality |
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111 | (10) |
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121 | (6) |
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Foot Play: Podophilia for Prudes |
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127 | (9) |
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136 | (9) |
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Female Ejaculation: A Scientific Road Less Traveled |
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145 | (6) |
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Studying the Elusive "Fag Hag": Women Who Like Men Who Like Men |
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151 | (5) |
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Darwin's Mystery Theater Presents... The Case of the Female Orgasm |
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156 | (6) |
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The Bitch Evolved: Why Are Girls So Cruel to Each Other? |
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162 | (9) |
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Part VI The Gayer Science: There's Something Queer Here |
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Never Ask a Gay Man for Directions |
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171 | (4) |
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"Single, Angry, Straight Male... Seeks Same": Homophobia as Repressed Desire |
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175 | (6) |
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Baby-Mama Drama-less Sex: How Gay Heartbreak Rains on the Polyamory Parade |
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181 | (8) |
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Top Scientists Get to the Bottom of Gay Male Sex Role Preferences |
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189 | (4) |
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Is Your Child a "Pre-homosexual"? Forecasting Adult Sexual Orientation |
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193 | (12) |
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Part VII For the Bible Tells Me So |
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Good Christians (but Only on Sundays) |
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205 | (6) |
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God's Little Rabbits: Believers Outreproduce Nonbelievers by a Landslide |
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211 | (8) |
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Planting Roots with My Dead Mother |
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219 | (10) |
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Part VIII Into the Deep: Existential Lab Work |
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Being Suicidal: Is Killing Yourself Adaptive? That Depends: Suicide for Your Genes' Sake (Part I) |
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229 | (9) |
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Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself (Part II) |
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238 | (11) |
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"Scientists Say Free Will Probably Doesn't Exist, Urge `Don't Stop Believing!'" |
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249 | (9) |
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The Rat That Wouldn't Stop Laughing: Joy and Mirth in the Animal Kingdom |
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258 | (11) |
| Notes |
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269 | (16) |
| Acknowledgments |
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285 | (4) |
| Index |
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