What Women Want: What Every Man Needs to Know about Sex, Romance, Passion, and Pleasure

by Laurence Roy Stains and Stefan Bechtel

Book Overview

2,102 women invite you between these covers These women want to share intimate secrets about their sex. Secrets that most mortal men never get to hear. You'll learn their real desires-- and exactly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345443411
• ISBN13: 9780345443410
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A Lifetime of Happiness

I can almost guarantee a lifetime of happiness to any man who reads this book and FOLLOWS ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS IN IT TO THE LETTER. I evaluated this book before giving it to my husband to read, and have ended up buying copies to give to most of my male friends, too. Unlike most advice books by "experts," the material in this book is based on questionnaires and interviews with hundreds of women and the scholarship shows. I found myself saying to myself as I read it, "Yep, that's true; I believe that; I feel like that; most of the women I know are like that." Probably 90% of the observations apply to 100% of American women and 100% of the observations apply to 90% of American women. Our wants and needs will no longer be a mystery to any man who reads this book, and wise men will act on its advice. It can also be a real eye-opener for women readers who wonder whether or not their wants and needs are in line with those of other women. For those who want to read further to find out why women are the way that they are, I recommend "Why Men Don't Listen (and Women Can't Read Maps)."

Brilliant

This book repackaged things I sort of knew and bases it on research. It actually made me a better husband, brother, son, friend, and employer. I now know how to relate to the opposite sex with devastating results. It just rang so true with men's blinkered approach to women and frankly gives you the power to know how to approach them without fear and frankly in a win-win mode. A lot of my wife's friends ave openly said to us both that they wish their husbands would do the things I did. This has actually made our marriage stronger.Get this book, it's better than Cosmopolitan!

"The Best Book of the 21st Century, and #4 in its field!!!"

If you're trying to figure out Sociobiology like I am, the 3 best books on the subject are:#1 HOW TO MAKE ANYONE FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU by Leil Lowndes, #2 SURVIVAL OF THE PRETTIEST by Nancy Etcoff, and #3 HOW TO SUCCEED WITH WOMEN by Ron Louis and David Copeland. But even though I haven't finished WHAT WOMEN WANT by Larry Stains, Stefan Bechtel, and Laurence Roy Stains, it's already #4!!!What makes all these books so good is that unlike books like MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS, this fantastic four of books deals with the real world, and tells us what women--who rule the game of love--really want!Some readers have criticicized this book as being a copy of HOW TO SUCCEED WITH WOMEN, but what makes WHAT WOMEN WANT different is that the authors not only tell us what women want, but they go into even more details about Sociobiogogy than HOW TO SUCCEED WITH WOMEN, and somehow, the writing is even better organized. The section on first date failures is dynamite, and I love the way the book refers to hundreds of the women the authors interviewed, instead of the usual studies quoted in other books. And like the Top Three, WHAT WOMEN WANT doesn't shy away from the importance of appearance, and emphasizes good grooming.But WHAT WOMEN WANT does have two weaknesses, as the authors try to downplay the importance of certain aspects of appearance such as hair--they try to use womens' answers to their questions to suggest that women don't care about baldness, while my research indicates hair is very important to women--and the authors overstate the importance of money to women--which my research says is a distant second for women to looks. (Why else are so many women married to guys with no money, or who aren't rich?!) Also, like HOW TO SUCCEED WITH WOMEN, there are no pictures of the authors, and I'm always a little curious to see what the writers of books like these look like!But WHAT WOMEN WANT is still sensational, and it's the best book of the 21st Century! Chari Krishnan

Yes, Yes, Yes

I loved this book and am not ashamed to say so. Growing up with a household of sisters, I know this book is true. Thanks for putting female thoughts into words that men can understand. Another excellent book is The RoMANtic's Guide by Michael Webb.

Guys this is the code book!

This book is awesome. It's written by guys FOR guys but it interviews over 2,000 women. From the chapters on dating and companionship to the chapters on sex and intimacy, there are thousands of tidbits in here that make you sit up and pay attention. In some ways the book illustrates that men and women really DO see things diffently -- we all knew that but didn't really know what to do about it, with this book, now we do! If women speak a "foreign" language then this book is the code book that makes it all clear. Hey one of the best tips is that women want someone who pays attention more than they want a CEO...easy enough to handle!