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Sperm Are from Men, Eggs Are from Women: The Real Reason Men And Women Are Different
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“We think our love is written in the stars, because it is written in our genetic code.”
So says Joe Quirk in his fascinating new book, Sperm are From Men, Eggs are From Women: The Real Reason Men and Women Are Different. The book looks at the whole man-woman relationship dynamic through the lens of sociology, biology, anthropology and the author’s personal dating history.
According to Joe Quirk, falling in love is the biological purpose of human life. Well, that explains why we’re always singing about love and writing about it and making movies about it.
I learned a whole lot of weird and wonderful stuff. Who knew, for example, that mammals, ants and moths all jump to the puppet strings of pheronmones? Or that homosexuality permeates the rest of the animal kingdom and that only gay bottlenose dolphins form lifelong pair-bonds?
I now know:
- Why the aqua-ape may be the missing link
- Why men are afraid of commitment and woman are cautious about consummation
- Why the clitoris is hard and the penis is easy to find
- Why we humans have a perpetual sense of dissatisfaction
The info about perpetual dissatisfaction helped me understand why I’m never content. How many times have I said, “If only such-and-such happens, that’s all I want in the whole world.” Then such-and-such happens, and am I happy? No, of course, not - “ now I want something else. Well, the author explains that enigma. Now I get it. In fact, my favorite line from the whole books is, “Only problem-solving tool-users came up with fire, the wheel and agriculture, yet still bitch that the restaurant is drafty.”
Reading his book was like eating chocolates - “ I didn’t want to stop until the box, I mean, book was finished. It wasn’t just me either. Charlie, my s.o. (significant other), picked up the book from where I left it on the sofa, began reading it and finished it in one day. Unfortunately, that happened to be the day that I was reading it. Maybe Joe can tackle that kind of power struggle in his next literary undertaking.
-MELODIE BOWSHER-
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