Praise for THE OTHER SIDE OF DESIRE: "Unsettling but riveting. On one level, this book has all the elements of a top-rated HBO series -- provocatively graphic sex, humorous dialogue and moral ambiguity. But what makes it so powerful is that it's as much about desire and what's normal as it is an exploration of why we are the way we are, whether we like it or not." - New York Times Book Review "Bergner is the kind of author who is able to delve deeply into the darkest and most forbidden realms of the human psyche and behavior. By deftly blending curiosity and compassion in The Other Side of Desire, Bergner shows that, if he had not chosen a career as a journalist, he would have made an exceptionally good psychotherapist." - San Francisco Chronicle "Fully immersed in his subjects, Bergner elicits candor while keeping an ear out for those details that make subjects come to life." - Time Out New York "Bergner does what science cannot: He illuminates peculiar longings." - Slate "Girded with scientific data about the nature of sexual identity, The Other Side of Desire is a foray into extreme passion, in quest of the human soul.
" - O, the Oprah Magazine "Fascinating. Threatens to disrupt all the modern stereotypes of female sexuality."-- Slate - Slate Totally engrossing."--New York magazine - New York magazine "It's everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't know to ask." - New York Post "It's everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't know to ask. Daniel Bergner upends long-standing myths about women and sex--everything from nature of attraction and pursuit to prevalence of taboo fantasies to monogamy itself." - New York Post " What Do Women Want? adds both steam and explosives into the national conversation-or preoccupation-with what it means to be a woman today." - Vogue "Bergner lays out the history of this brainwashing and then debunks it in his entertaining new book, What do Women Want?.
He recaps ingenious studies that have plumbed our desires, including those we deny or hide from ourselves." - Elle "This book should be read by every woman on earth. a must-read for anyone with even a remote erotic interest in the female gender."-- Salon.com - Salon.com ".Shatters many of our most cherished myths about desire."-- The Atlantic - The Atlantic "At last, we have a new perspective on the wilds of female desire, in rousing tableaux, as women, men, sexologists, bonobos, erotic gurus, and many others provide frank, vivid answers to the question that has haunted [us] for far too long: What do women want? The answer will fascinate all.
" - Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of Love "Daniel Bergner has written a keenly intelligent book about a subject that often exceeds our intelligence: What Do Women Want?" - Gay Talese "Just as good as the various rave reviews promise." - New York Observer "Accessible and informative prose . this page-turning book will have readers questioning some of their most ingrained beliefs about women, men, society, and sex." - Publishers Weekly.