Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-02-23
Books mentioned on Why Is No One Having Sex? - Alex DatePsych - #593
Alex DatePsych is a Neuroscience and Behavioural Science researcher whose work focuses on attractiveness and dating. We are in a new age of sexlessness.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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When Men Behave Badly
When Men Behave Badly by David Buss is an exploration of the evolutionary roots of sexual conflict, harassment, and assault.
Discussed“David Buss talks about this in Men Behaving Badly which is there is a small cohort of men that do almost all of the really creepy Behavior”
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Everybody Lies
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a fascinating examination of big data, exploring how anonymous internet search queries and digital footprints reveal people's true behaviors, desires, and biases that they would never admit in public, to a therapist, or even to themselves.
Discussed“I had a Seth Stevens dividowitz on the show who wrote everybody lies and don't trust your gut”
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The Game
The Game by Neil Strauss is an infamous investigative memoir chronicling the author's immersion into the secretive, highly structured subculture of professional pickup artists and the psychological dynamics of dating.
Discussed“the guy with the big furry hat and the massive sideburns mystery out of Neil Strauss is the game even he could get laid”
