Decoding Love is as easy as monkey sex

Decoding Love: Why it takes twelve frogs to find a prince, and other revelations from the science of attraction
                       by Andrew Trees,  264 pages

Did you know that having a son increases your chance of having a good marriage?  That men can smell when women are having their period?  Did you know, did you know, did you know?  This book is an illuminating treasure trove of trivia related to sex and romance based on science and evolution.

A lot of what goes into mating is out of our hands, such as body odor and height.  The books tells people how to overcome some obstacles, like height, and confirms what most of us already know, that men like sex, and dispels what we believe to be true, that men usually make the first move---we don't---not even close. Trees gives the evolutionary reason, as well as comparing different species as our own to give us perspective on how monogamy and lust function in animal brains.  I now know why testicle sizes vary across species, why the penis has glands that protrude, and why the vagina is in the front.---Fascinating!

Trees doesn't cite his sources in the text.  This is not an academic paper.  He has a section at the end of the book where he mentions many sources that were consulted and often mentions specific studies and scientists for the skeptic and fanatic.  His prose is simple to read and fast but beware of the first chapter, it's slow and almost vanquished me, but it picks up in chapter two and I sailed to the end, my brain in a constant state of arousal---I wonder what Tree would say about that?