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    The following work also lends vantage points on the concerns of chapter seven:
    Basson, R. (2003). Biopsychosocial models of women’s sexual response: applications to management of “desire disorders.” Sexual and Relationship Therapy , 18 , 107–115.
    Basson, R. (2000). The female sexual response: a different model. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy , 26 , 51–65.
    Brotto, L. A., Erskine, Y., Carey, M., Ehlen, T., Finlayson, S., Heywood, M., Kwon, J., McAlpine, J., Stuart, G., Thomson, S., & Miller, D. (2012). A brief mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral intervention improves sexual functioning versus wait-list control in women treated for gynecological cancer. Gynecological Oncology , 125 , 320–325.
    Brotto, L. A., Basson, R., & Luria, M. (2008). A mindfulness-based group psychoeducational intervention targeting sexual arousal disorder in women. Journal of Sexual Medicine , 5 , 1646–1659.
    Brotto, L. A., Heiman, J. R., Goff, B., Greer, B., Lentz, G. M., Swisher, E., Tamimi, H., & Blaricom, A. V. (2008). A psychoeducational intervention for sexual dysfunction in women with gynecological cancer. Archives of Sexual Behavior , 37 , 317–329.
    Hrdy, S. B. (2000). The optimal number of fathers: evolution, demography, and history in the shaping of female mate preferences. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences , 907 , 75–96.
    Hrdy, S. B. (1997). Raising Darwin’s consciousness: female sexuality and the prehominid origins of patriarchy. Human Nature , 8 , 1–49.
    Hrdy, S. B. (1981). The Woman That Never Evolved . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    Hrdy, S. B. (1979). Infanticide among animals: a review, classification, and examination of the implications for the reproductive strategies of females. Ethology and Sociobiology , 1 , 13–40.
    Zeh, J. A., Newcomer, S. D., & Zeh, D. W. (1998). Polyandrous females discriminate against previous mates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 95 , 13732–13736.
    Diamond, L. M. (2008). Sexual Fluidity: understanding women’s love and desire . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    On the disputes over varieties of female orgasm—covered in chapter eight—discussions held in the pages of the Journal of Sexual Medicine are a useful way to begin:
    Jannini, E. A., Rubio-Casillas, A., Whipple, B., Buisson, O., Komisaruk, B. R., & Brody, S. (2012). Female orgasm(s): one, two, several. Journal of Sexual Medicine , 9 , 956–965.
    And then there’s Barry Komisaruk’s and Beverly Whipple’s more pragmatic guide to the science of climaxing:
    Komisaruk, B. R., Beyer-Flores, C., & Whipple, B. (2006). The Science of Orgasm . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    For the recent history of female desire drugs chronicled in chapter nine, I’ve drawn mostly from innumerable conversations with experts in the field, but the mainstream press has written extensively about these failures, and a Web search of the drugs’ names, from Intrinsa to Bremelanotide, from Flibanserin to Libigel, will turn up a wealth of further reading.
    Finally, about speed dating:
    Finkel, E. J., & Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Arbitrary social norms influence sex differences in romantic selectivity. Psychological Science , 20 , 1290–1295.

Acknowledgments
    W ithout the voices of the many women who spoke with me, in confidence, about their erotic lives, I could not have written this book. My gratitude goes to those whose stories I’ve told and to all the others whose thoughts have informed my thinking. Equally, I am indebted to the patient teaching of an array of scientists and clinicians. Beyond those noted within the book, Kelly Allers, Monica Day, Ann D’Ercole, Leonard DeRogatis, Muriel Dimen, Katherine Frank, Irwin Goldstein, Bat Sheva Marcus, Margaret Nichols, Adam Safron, Michael Sand, and Claire Yang were especially generous with their time and perspective.
    I have been immensely fortunate to have Suzanne Gluck as my agent throughout my writing life—my thanks go to her and to William Morris Endeavor’s Eve Attermann, Raffaella De Angelis, Tracy Fisher, and Alicia Gordon.
    Lee Boudreaux, my nimble and inexhaustible editor, has been a wonderful guide. And Dan Halpern, along with Tina Andreadis, Tamara Arellano, Rachel Elinsky, Mark Ferguson, Erin Gorham, Georgia Maas, Karen Maine, Michael McKenzie, Allison Saltzman, Benjamin Tomek, and Craig Young have made me tremendously thankful to have Ecco/HarperCollins as my