Author Daniel Bergner of ‘What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire’, talks about everything from the nature of attraction and pursuit to the prevalence of taboo fantasies to monogamy itself, the New York Post reported.

It is thought that men are more promiscuous by nature because they’re biologically programmed to spread their seed, while the risks of pregnancy and child-rearing cause women to be more selective, but the book talks about some of the most unexpected finding by the field’s leading researchers.