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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

by Olivia Judson

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ISBN13: 9780805063318
ISBN10: 0805063315
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A sex guide for all living things and a hilarious natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation.

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a unique guidebook to sex. It reveals, for example, when necrophilia is acceptable and who should commit bestiality with whom. It discloses the best time to have a sex change, how to have a virgin birth, and when to eat your lover. It also advises on more mundane matters — such as male pregnancy and the joys of a detachable penis.

Entertaining, funny, and marvelously illuminating, the book comprises letters from all creatures worried about their bizarre sex lives to the wise Dr. Tatiana, the only sex columnist in creation with a prodigious knowledge of evolutionary biology. Fusing natural history with advice to the lovelorn, blending wit and rigor, she is able to reassure her anxious correspondents that although the acts they describe might sound appalling and unnatural, they are all perfectly normal — so long as you are not a human. In the process, she explains the science behind it all, from Darwin's theory of sexual selection to why sexual reproduction exists at all. Applying human standards to the natural world, in the end she reveals the wonders of both.

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"Judson gets high marks for her copiously researched data....The reader will undoubtedly come away with reams of fascinating factoids." Publishers Weekly

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"Consider inviting Tatiana to your next dinner party — most assuredly there'll never be a dull moment." Library Journal

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Entertaining and illuminating, the book comprises letters from all creatures worried about their bizarre sex lives to the wise Dr. Tatiana, the only sex columnist in creation with a prodigious knowledge of evolutionary biology.

About the Author

An alumna of Stanford with a doctorate from Oxford, Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist and award-winning journalist who has published in The Economist, Nature, Science, and The Times Higher Education Supplement. She is presently a research fellow at Imperial College in London. Visit her on the web at www.drtatiana.com.

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donna86, January 12, 2007 (view all comments by donna86)
one of the best books i have come across, this book is full of facts, and for me, as a student of zoology and entomology, it's almost like a bible! olivia judson manages to explain theories and trivia in a way that one will never forget...truly a book that is guaranteed to have you laughing till you get those tears coming!
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vailtorres, December 6, 2006 (view all comments by vailtorres)
This book will tickle your funny bone. Sure to bring a great response as a gift, it is full of surprising factual material...You will laugh at these hilarious sexual predicaments..and feel better about yours!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780805063318
Subtitle:
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
Author:
Judson, Olivia
Publisher:
Metropolitan Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
Sex
Subject:
Sex differences
Subject:
Sexual behavior in animals
Subject:
Life Sciences - Zoology - General
Subject:
General Nature
Subject:
General Nature
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
99-109
Publication Date:
20020814
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.56x5.76x1.05 in. 1.08 lbs.

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