What Do Women Want

publisher.
    Ilena Silverman, my thoughtful editor at the New York Times Magazine , gave this book its start, and Hanna Rosin and Slate’s Double X assisted with a blog early on.
    My friends Samantha Gillison, John Gulla, William Hogeland, George Packer, Ayesha Pande, Roland Kelts, Elizabeth Rubin, Laura Secor, Anne Sikora, and Tom Watson were always there to contribute counsel, lend humor, and infuse endurance.
    My father continues to be true north for me—no words of thanks can capture my feelings.
    Nancy Northup, the mother of my children and my former wife, offered faith for many years and, furthermore, does the kind of political and legal advocacy that makes this book’s psychological and intellectual explorations possible.
    And my children, Natalie and Miles, who are no longer children, are the minds to which I must measure up and the heartbeat that sustains me.

About the Author
    DANIEL BERGNER is a contributing
writer for the New York Times Magazine and the
author of three previous books of nonfiction: The Other
Side of Desire; In the Land of Magic Soldiers, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and winner of an Overseas
Press Club Award and a Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of
Reportage; and God of the Rodeo, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Bergner’s
writing has also appeared in Granta, Harper’s Magazine,
Mother Jones, Talk, and the New York
Times Book Review ; on the op-ed page of the New
York Times; and in The Norton Reader: An
Anthology of Nonfiction. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Also by Daniel Bergner
    Fiction
    Moments of Favor
    Nonfiction
    The Other Side of Desire:
    Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing
    In the Land of Magic Soldiers:
    A Story of White and Black in West Africa
    God of the Rodeo:
    The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana’s Angola Prison

Copyright
    In order to protect the privacy of the
women whose sexual lives and personal relationships are described in this book,
I have changed names and some minor identifying details. This does not apply to
the scientists I’ve written about or to Shanti Owen, who appears in chapter
eight.
    Parts of this book originally appeared in
different form in the New York Times Magazine.
    WHAT DO WOMEN
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