Aris­ing from his explo­sive 2009 New York Times mag­a­zine cov­er sto­ry of the same title – the most emailed piece in their his­to­ry – crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed jour­nal­ist Daniel Bergn­er turns every­thing we thought we knew about female desire inside out. In What Do Women Want?, he uses the lat­est sci­en­tif­ic research to paint an unprece­dent­ed and thought-pro­vok­ing por­trait of the full scope of a female lust: the trig­gers, the fan­tasies, the mind-body con­nec­tion (and dis­con­nec­tion), the rea­sons for desire’s decline, and, most rev­e­la­to­ry, that this decline is any­thing but inevitable.