Who’d want to be a man?

Adam Phillips

  • BuySexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond
    Harvard, 333 pp, £18.95, March 2008, ISBN 978 0 674 02624 7

The scientific study of sexuality – unsurprisingly, perhaps, a flourishing academic field – aims to help us sort out what we might want from what we can have. Given how widespread sexual curiosity tends to be, it’s always interesting to see what science can get up to when it researches sex; what calling this particular area of research ‘scientific’ adds to, or takes away from, this common pursuit. At its most minimal the so-called science of sex makes us wonder what sex would be if it wasn’t embarrassing, and if there was no more to expose than the facts of life.

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