ISBN:
0195357582
,
9780195357585
,
1280441992
,
9781280441998
,
1423740556
,
9781423740551
,
9780195093582
,
0195093585
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 308 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version With pleasure
DDC:
306.7
Keywords:
Sex
;
Sexual excitement
;
Pleasure
;
Pleasure
;
Sex
;
Sexual excitement
;
Evolution
;
Sexual Behavior
;
Sex
;
Biological Evolution
;
Electronic books
;
SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction
;
Pleasure
;
Sex
;
Sexual excitement
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This study argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors define sexual pleasure as a unifying phenomenon to account for the practices of sexuality. They show that reproduction itself occurs as a by-product of pleasure
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Sex as Procreation: Is That All There Is?; 3. The Regulation and Marketing of Sexual Pleasure; 4. The Biology of Sexual Pleasure; 5. The Psychology of Sexual Pleasure; 6. AIDS: The End of Pleasure?; 7. Porn: Tempest on a Soapbox; Epilogue: The Future of Sex; Appendix A: Contextual Glossary for Chapter 4; Appendix B: Mathematical Models of HIV Transmission; Notes; References; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-286) and index. - Description based on print version record
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