{"product_id":"why-do-men-fall-asleep-after-sex-isbn-9780307345974","title":"Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?","description":"The Doctor Is In . . . Again!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid the mega-bestselling \u003ci\u003eWhy Do Men Have Nipples?\u003c\/i\u003e exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes—those burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of course, Why do men fall asleep after sex?, plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of smart and funny answers to an onslaught of new questions, all in a do-ask-we’ll-tell spirit that entertain and teaches you something at the same time, \u003ci\u003eWhy Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?\u003c\/i\u003e offers the real lowdown on everything everyone wants to know about all things anatomical, medical, sexual, nutritional, animal, and mineral, but would only ask a physician after a few too many, like:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Why do you have a “bionic” sense of smell when you’re pregnant?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Does peeing in the shower cure athlete’s foot?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Is a dog’s mouth clean?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Can you breastfeed with fake boobs?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Does thumb sucking cause buckteeth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Do your eyebrows grow back if shaved? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBigger, funnier, and better than ever, \u003ci\u003eWhy Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?\u003c\/i\u003e proves that in the battle of the sexes, as in most things, a little Q\u0026amp;A is a safe, effective, minimally invasive remedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an eBookMark Leyner is the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Cousin, My Gastroenterologist\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTooth Imprints on a Corndog\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eI Smell Esther Williams\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEt Tu Babe\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Tetherballs of Bougainville\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written scripts for a variety of film and television shows, and his work appears regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e.  Billy Goldberg, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician on faculty at a New York City teaching hospital. He is also a writer and artist whose paintings have been exhibited in New York City. Together, they are the authors of the number one \u003ci\u003eNew York Time\u003c\/i\u003es bestseller \u003ci\u003eWhy Do Men Have Nipples?\u003c\/i\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    BATTLE OF THE SEXES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    It's 9 A.M. Leyner and I are sitting in our office, awaiting our   first patients.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    After finishing \u003ci\u003eWhy Do Men Have Nipples?\u003c\/i\u003e, we decided to go into   practice together. Leyner's BA    in English and Masters in creative writing hardly qualified him to   treat patients, and his adamant refusal to seek higher medical   education didn't help matters. (Leyner was violently opposed to the   idea of attending school again. During a rather heated discussion of   the issue, he smashed a printer we'd just purchased for our new   office, and scrawled an adolescent vulgarity on a print of Van Gogh's   Sunflowers hanging in the hallway.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    When Leyner regained his composure, we realized that the thing that   made our partnership work was our fanatical mutual admiration, our boundless love of arcane medical matters and our capacity to talk   endlessly about our own insecurities and desires, and the personal   crises and dilemmas in which life occasionally ensnares us. For some   bizarre reason, people other than the two of us seem to be interested   in what we have to say. . . . We finally agreed that if Dr. Phil   could do it on TV, why couldn't we offer our learned and empathic   counseling services. This would preclude the need for advanced   degrees, and, I also figured it was a way to safely keep medical   instruments and sharp surgical devices out of Leyner's emotionally   unstable grasp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Our office assistant, Wendy Thurston, who was recently fired from her   position as senior editor at Half a Dozen Ponds Press after she was   arrested for shoplifting lipstick from a Rite Aid, escorted our first   patients of the day into our office. They were a young couple. The   woman was attractive, conservatively dressed, and--at first   glance--seemed somewhat despondent. Her husband, dragging behind,   seemed more interested in the defaced painting in the hallway than in   being here to address \"issues\" with his inexplicably unfulfilled wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Who wrote 'sniff my crotch' on the Van Gogh out there?\" he asked as   he took a seat next to his wife. \"I love it!!!\" he guffawed, slapping   his thighs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    His wife grimaced with chagrin. \"You see,\" she said, \"I married a   philistine and a troglodyte.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Insult me in English, you pretentious bitch!,\" the husband replied.   Leyner assumed a fighting stance--the Drunken Crane pose of the   Shaolin School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I remembered the last time that Leyner assaulted a patient and hoping   to avoid more litigation, I interceded and suggested that Leyner's   pose is the typical noncommunicative and defensive position that   spouses take and that this impedes further discussion. A dissapointed   Leyner shrugged in agreement and slouched into his leather armchair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    As I turned to the fuming couple, I asked them to role-play with us.   I offered to play the husband to our female patient and Leyner   enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to play wife to the man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I began, \"Sometimes patients feel more open and honest with a   surrogate spouse, so I want you to tell me exactly what you need from   me in this marriage.\" Sheepishly the woman responded, \"I need a   partner, a soul mate, someone to talk to. Sometimes I just want to be   heard. I don't need someone to solve all my problems, I just need   someone to hold me and listen.\" The husband jumped at the chance to   answer his wife, but I stopped him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"I want you to respond to Leyner as if he were your wife. This will   keep the two of you from becoming defensive and allow you to see each   other's point of view.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Confused, the husband looked at the beaming Leyner and said, \"I   listen, I hold you, but it's always the things that I don't do. I   feel like you don't appreciate the things that I do. I barbecue, I   walk the dog, I take out the garbage, I even put down the toilet   seat. What do you want me to do? Lactate?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Leyner rose from his chair red-faced, tears welling in his eyes,   spittle flying from his mouth as he gesticulated with melodramatic   hysteria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Bastard . . . You stole my youth and now you're drowning my soul in   your vile bullshit. You make love to me as if I were some inflatable   doll--pumping for a minute or two, while you watch Sports Center and   then losing consciousness. You're torturing me . . . I hate you. I   HATE YOU!!!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tears streamed down Leyner's face as he wept uncontrollably. The   couple sat silently, completely and utterly confused.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    So much for the role-playing. Unfortunately there is no easy solution   to the Battle of the Sexes but here are some answers. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHY DO WOMEN PEE MORE THAN MEN?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Any man who has taken a long car trip with a woman truly believes   that women need to pee more than men. As we speed down the highway   and begrudgingly pull into another rest stop, we wonder whether this   is the result of a genetic difference, obsessive water consumption,   or a vicious plan to throw us off schedule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    If you happened to be leafing through the February 5, 2005, edition   of The Journal of Urology, you could begin to find an answer. Doctors   reviewed twenty-four-hour \"urinary diaries\" of both men and women and   recorded fluid intake and urinary frequency. They found that women do   pee more often than men but not because they drink more. In fact, men   generally have higher fluid intake but don't need to go as often.   When men finally feel the urge, they tend to pee in higher volumes   than women. This is because men have a larger bladder capacity. That   means smaller bladders in the ladies. Women are also more likely to   suffer from overactive bladder syndrome which makes them go even   more. No wonder the line is always longer at the ladies' room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Diaries and memoirs are a red-hot genre these days. There's The Diary   of Anne Frank, Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries, The Personal Memoirs   of Ulysses S. Grant, Karrine Steffans' Confessions of a Video Vixen,   and, of course, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. But, if you're   inspired by literary ambition, and decide to keep and then publish   your Urine Diary, be aware that it will most probably be classified   as \"nonfiction.\" You must account accurately for each and every drop,   with absolutely no embellishment or hyperbole. Remember--if you fib   in your Urine Diary, it could really piss off Oprah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHY DO WOMEN HAVE SMALLER FEET THAN MEN?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Overall, women are smaller than men. The \"why\" is an evolutionary   question that is too complex for us to answer here. But the ways in   which men and women differ anatomically is more approachable. Male   and female feet differ in size relative to stature. Men of the same   height as women tend to have longer and wider feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    When you compare a male and female foot of the same size, the woman's   foot will have a higher arch, a shallower first toe, a shorter ankle   length, and a smaller instep. Women also have larger calf   circumferences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Women seem to have an incredible knack for disregarding the shape of   their feet and forcing them into ever smaller and pointier high   heels. This callous disregard makes the foot differences between the   genders even greater by ultimately changing the natural shape of   female feet. In 1993, it was reported by the American Orthopedic Foot   and Ankle Society, that 88 percent of the women surveyed wore shoes   smaller than their actual foot size. No wonder our wives are   constantly patching their traumatized feet with Band-Aids and tape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eARE MEN BETTER THAN WOMEN AT MATH?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Danger! Danger! Answering this question incorrectly may force us to   sleep on the couch with our wives beating us with the infamous Teen   Talk Barbie that was programmed to say, \"Math is hard!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Harvard University president Lawrence Summers stepped into this   minefield in 2005, when he suggested that biological differences   might be one of the reasons that fewer women are in the fields of   science and engineering. His speech led many professors to protest   his statement, and others threatened to withhold donations. Several   days later, Summers was forced to apologize. And he has since   resigned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo here are some facts (though these are often debated). . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The brains of men and women are definitely different. Women's brains   are generally about 10 percent smaller than men's, but this is   meaningless when it comes to intelligence. Men and women show no   disparity in general intelligence. There are, however, some areas   with slight variances. Women are better at visual memory,   mathematical calculation, and get better school grades in   mathematics. Men, however, are better at mentally rotating shapes,   mathematical problem-solving, and score higher on mathematical word   problems and on tests of mathematical reasoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Whether you agree or disagree on the interpretation of the available   data, sociologists generally agree that social factors exaggerated   any differences touted in the past. Women are clearly   underrepresented in certain scientific fields such as math,   engineering, and physics, but women now comprise more than 50 percent   of medical students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    In the interest of gender harmony, let's create a new politically   correct, asexual Barbie who says something neutral like \"Cognitively   rotating abstract shapes can be a daunting task--I prefer   mathematical calculation and more linguistically complex and   empathy-centered forms of interpersonal communication.\" Fun!From the author of the New York Times bestseller Why Do Men Have Nipples?","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304488095973,"sku":"NP9780307345974","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307345974.jpg?v=1767744264","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/why-do-men-fall-asleep-after-sex-isbn-9780307345974","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}