Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to all Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex.OLIVIA JUDSON Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. Under the pseudonym "Dr Tatiana" she wrote a light-hearted best-selling guidebook to sex throughout the natural kingdom, entitled Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. She was a pupil of W.D. 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. Unlike the advice from those popular sex counselors, Dr. Tatiana's isn't limited to the human lovelorn. She helps creatures big and small, insect and mammal, plant and animal through any number of sexual difficulties by applying her extensive knowledge in evolutionary biology and natural history. 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. Metropolitan, 2002, 308 p., hardcover, $24.00 |
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