Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: the Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex.OLIVIA HUDSON Move over, Ruth Westheimer Ruth Westheimer, Ed.D (born Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928) is a popular American sex therapist and author best known as Dr. Ruth. Biography Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family. and Joyce Brothers Joyce Brothers, PhD (maiden name Joyce Diane Bauer, born September 20, 1928) is a psychologist and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. . Unlike the advice from those popular sex counselors, Dr. Tatiana isn't limited to the human lovelorn. She helps creatures--be they insect or mammal--through any number of sexual difficulties by applying her extensive knowledge in evolutionary biology. She fields questions from a stick insect whose lover is obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with her, a fig wasp that laments that all the males she knows bite their girlfriends in half, and a lion bemoaning the fact that his mate is a nymphomaniac nymphomaniac an individual patient habitually showing signs of nymphomania. . While the presentation is parodistic, the information Judson provides is a rigorous overview of the reasons different animals mate as they do and how their sex acts figure into the evolutionary process. Originally published in hardcover in 2002. Owl Bks, 2003, 308 p., paperback, $94.00. |
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