Why Men Are Needed

Janusz Wiśniewski’s book “Why Do We Need Men?” is an attempt to build a bridge between scientific theory and the “voice of the heart”—between what has been proven and what has been felt. The author refutes myths, challenges stereotypes, gets people riled up and amused. This is a dose of shocking knowledge about ourselves. A wealth of intriguing facts—and the personal reflections of a scholar. A scholar with a poet’s soul.
Who are men? How are they different from women, and in what direction—toward something better or worse? What do they love and what are they most afraid of? Which women do they like and which ones not so much? Are men capable of loyalty? Why do we even need this subspecies of Homo sapiens—and does it have any evolutionary prospects?
These questions have been bothering more than one generation of women—and Janusz Leon Wiśniewski decided to take them up in his provocative book.

“Why Do We Need Men?” is a kind of guide to men: what they are like, both in the realm of inter-gender relationships and simply in life.
As a scientist, Wiśniewski abundantly—and with taste—provides data from all kinds of surveys, studies, and experiments; as a writer, he presents them in an engaging and witty way. The book reads even better than Wiśniewski’s novels and short stories—probably because there is more humor and fewer tears. And those endless percentage breakdowns—illustrating, for example, what share of men don’t know that women have some sort of a clitoris, and what share have heard something about this part of the body but have no idea where it is—are simply something you want to memorize word for word.