Sex Signals - The Biology of Love

Timothy Perper

Isi Pr

1985

323 páginas

10h 46m

ISBN-10: 0894950509

This book is basically a study of courtship. Perper, a biologist, reports the results of his analysis of interviews with men and women and observations of couples in bars. He attempts to show that there is a biological basis to the way that women and men meet and fall in love. Although Perper indicates that the book is intended for an audience "including laypeople unfamiliar with biology," the book's scholarly citations, length, and theoretical analysis suggest it will appeal to the more serious reader. This book is more substantial but less lucid than Heather Trexler Remoff's Sexual Choice ( LJ 1/85). It should be a useful addition to academic and large public library collections. Joseph Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Library Journal

Sex Signals is an entertaining book which addresses the relationships between attraction, flirtation, intimacy, courtship, sex, love, and biology.... Overall, Sex Signals is a highly informative and interesting book.... My final impression was that the book's descriptions of singles' bar behavior and "magic moments" in courtship could be quite useful to diverse groups of authors, researchers, and screenplay writers --Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, Spring/Summer 1986

A highly readable, well-researched book on human courtship and marriage, interpreted in a conceptual framework the author refers to as "biosocial functionality".... Perper's empirical research was largely conducted in singles bars, and was quite sophisticated. It led him to claim that a "mating dance" of nonverbal and verbal actions containing distinct, predictable steps occurs when a man and woman first meet and then progress to romantic involvement --Choice, Feb. 1986