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The power of love is (as the song says) a curious thing. Rock stars sing about it, comedians tell jokes about it, and just about every advice columnist writes about it. Scientifically, however, just how curious love is, is still an open question. "Love" is a four-letter word to many people-and "sex" is the shortest four-letter word of all. Society builds taboos around these words, but there's no denying that love and sex are spectacular.

This is a book about sex: typical and atypical, loving and lustful, sensible and ridiculous. Sexual Landscapes takes on the most challenging puzzles of human sexuality and incorporates the latest scientific research, experts' theories, and the author's own work to explain them.

Why are we attracted to the people we love? Why are we hetero-, homo-, bi-, or transsexual? Who's controlling the communication when a man and a woman meet for the first time? Why do there seem to be more gay men than gay women? More bisexual women than bisexual men? Why do men and women say they're aroused by different things, but when tested with actual erotica, appear to be aroused by the same things? Why are we afraid to educate our children about sex? Does homosexuality run in families? How do things as delightful as sex and love become intertwined with pain and violence? Dr. Weinrich challenges our assumptions and popular taboos as he presents the results of fascinating research and controversial theories about why we love and lust.

Sexual Landscapes is a provocative, challenging guided tour of our sexual selves that will delight, inform, and instruct.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Chapter 1: The Power of Love - Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Gender Transpositions - Erotic subtypes discussed in the book
  • Chapter 3: Ten Unsolved Problems - about the science of sexual arousal
  • Chapter 4: The S*x Taboo - and how it cripples our society
  • Chapter 5: Reality or Social Construction? - Are things like 'homosexuality' real, or just constructed by society?
  • Chapter 6: Limerence, Lust, Bisexuality - A new theory of types of attraction that explains how someone might 'fall in lust' with one sex but only 'fall in love' with the other sex
  • Chapter 7: The Periodic-Table Model - How the gender transpositions can be arranged
  • Chapter 8: Plethysmography - Direct genital measurement as an amazing and insightful scientific technique
  • Chapter 9: Families of Origin - How sexual preferences are related to childhood personality traits and parental caring patterns
  • Chapter 10: When Sex and Violence Mix - How can something as wonderful as love sometimes get connected to pain and suffering?
  • Chapter 11: Courtship theory - The secret ways women attract men, and why men don't know about them
  • Chapter 12: Homosexuality in Animals - Gay or bisexual animals? Why not?!
  • Chapter 13: Sociobiology - How evolution explains sexual orientation
  • Chapter 14: The Big Picture - Solving the ten problems posed in chapter 3
  • Chapter 15: Conclusions - Why responsible openness about sex is vital to society
  • References
  • Index - The index page numbers do point accurately to page numbers in this printed edition.

About the Author: James D. Weinrich holds a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University and an M.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University. He has published widely in scientific journals, and is the editor of the Journal of Bisexuality. He won the Hugo Beigel Award for co-authoring the best paper published in the Journal of Sex Research (1987)--for work which is described in this book. In 2011, he received a Career Achievement award at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781478347248
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 450
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1478347244
  • Publisher Date: 13 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 652 gr


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