Daniel Bergner

Daniel Bergner

Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine

Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of four books of nonfiction: What Do Women Want?The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of Magic Soldiers, and God of the RodeoIn the Land of Magic Soldiers received an Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting and a Lettre-Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. God of the Rodeo was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel’s writing has appeared in the AtlanticGrantaHarper’sMother JonesTalk, and the New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. His writing is included in The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction.

5 min
Everything we thought we knew about female sexual desire is being overturned. Following from experiments, what we think turns us on and what actually excites us are two different things.
4 min
A bevy of new research is proving wrong many of our preconceived notions about women and sexuality.
7 min
Much of what we assume is true about female sexuality stems from spurious research from the 1990s.