| Description |
xiii, 493 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: Sex and the psyche. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
A note on caution and confidentiality -- Introduction : on the couch at 7:00 a.m. -- pt. 1. The secret cinema in our minds -- 1. Why we make love with the lights out -- 2. The science of psychological fingerprints -- 3. The intra-marital affair : staging our private theater -- pt. 2. A cornucopia of fantasies -- 4. Fantasy 101 : tales of ordinary explicitness -- 5. Group formations : threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes -- 6. Cheating : when the intra-marital meets the extramarital -- 7. I'm ready for my close-up : fantasies of celebrities -- 8. Is your wife a lesbian? Is your husband homosexual? Is your gay lover really straight? -- 9. On genital exhibitionism -- 10. The erotic smorgasbord : fetishism, transvestism, homeovestism, and other forms of object-love -- 11. Humiliation and the infliction of shame -- 12. Incest : do we really fancy our family? -- 13. Can I be arrested for my fantasies? : extreme sexual violence -- 14. Teenagers and children -- 15. Sugar and spice and everything nice -- pt. 3. The origins of sexual fantasy -- 16. The underbelly of the normal fantasy : erotic freedom or sublimated sadism? -- 17. "They've scraped out my soul" : struggling with shame and humiliation -- 18. Case history : Paris and the ginger pubic hair -- 19. The traumatic roots of sexual fantasy -- 10. The fourteen functions of sexual fantasy -- 21. The mysterious boxing gloves, or, can fantasies be trauma-free? -- pt. 4. Sexual fantasies and the outside world -- 22. Do fantasies ruin relationships? -- 23. Normality and prevention in the bedroom and the boardroom -- 24. Sanctum sanctorum, or, probing the unprobable -- Appendix. The sexual fantasy research questionnaire -- Acknowledgments -- Announcement : the sexual fantasy research project. |
| Subject |
Sex (Psychology)
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Sexual fantasies.
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| Added Author |
Kahr, Brett.
Sex and the psyche.
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| ISBN |
0465037666 (alk. paper) |
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9780465037667 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 11655257 |
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AU@ 000042298989 |
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