Love and Marriage

"I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.' "
- Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services

Why Women Have Sex

"Sex has all kinds of utilities—it always has," says Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington and the author of a number of books on sex. "People use what they've got, and sometimes yes, women too use sexuality as a tool." Buss, an evolutionary psychologist, says, "One of the things we realized early on was that there's this huge gap in the field of study in that we thought women's sexual motivations were sort of intuitive and understood. But what shocked me was the sheer complexity of women's psychology."

But the brain is the primary driver of female arousal, which means we tend to overanalyze and dissect, to the point that our motivations, in many cases, have very little to do with simple physical desire. We also have anatomical differences: if a man gets an erection (which can occur easily from acts unrelated to sex) it generally triggers sexual desire. Not so in women. And while the wonder drug Viagra has enhanced sex for millions of happy men, simply increasing a woman's blood flow will cure little. More than half of women under 60 still suffer from low sex drive, and a quarter are unable to orgasm.

Source: Newsweek on the web