Spring is sprung, and there's a whole lot of propagating going on out there. In this week's podcast, we've got a pair of books whose subject seems as perennial as those plants busily thrusting out of the soil: just what is going on with women and men these days?
Award-winning author Russell Smith is put on the spot for gathering stories of women's fantasies and turning them into a kind of lucrative true confessions in Diana: A Diary In The Second Person (Biblioasis).
Montreal psychologist and author Susan Pinker takes on the gender divide with a different approach to biology in her book The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the real Gender Gap (Random House).
CBC radio host Shelagh Rogers corrals both authors and examines just which is the frailer sex?
Listen to their conversation here:
Spring, Eros and the Paradox of some True Confessions
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