Hachette India

Bad Men

David Buss

Sexual conflict permeates ancient religions from injunctions about thy neighbor's wife to the sexual obligations of marriage. It is etched in written laws that dictate who can and cannot have sex with whom. Its manifestations shape our sexual morality evoking approving accolades or contemptuous condemnation. It produces sexual double standards that flourish even in the most sexually egalitarian cultures on earth. And although every person alive struggles with sexual conflict most of us see only the tip of the iceberg: dating deception a politician's unsavory grab the slow crumbling of a once-happy marriage a romantic breakup that turns nasty.

Bad Men shows that this "battle of the sexes" is deeper and far more pervasive than anyone has recognized revealing the hidden roots of sexual conflict -- roots that originated over deep evolutionary time -- which characterise our sexual psychology. Providing novel insights into our minds and behaviours Bad Men presents a unifying new theory of sexual conflict and offers practical advice for men and women seeking to avoid it.

David Buss

David M. Buss is professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. He is the author of several books including THE EVOLUTION OF DESIRE THE DANGEROUS PASSION THE MURDERER NEXT DOOR and WHY WOMEN HAVE SEX (co-authored with Dr. Cindy Meston). He has written for publications such as the New York Times Los Angeles Times and Psychology Today and he has made more than thirty television appearances on shows including CBS This Morning ABC's 20/20 and NBC's Dateline and Today among others. Buss has received numerous awards which include the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology by the American Psychological Association (APA) a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the G. Stanley Hall Award from the APA. Most recently he received the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement (2017) and has been cited as one of the 50 most influential psychologists in the world.