An investigation of the origins of human sexual excitement; Stoller uses as source material pornography, daydreams and rituals that are commonly regarded as perverted. He suggests that similar elements are present in the erotic fantasies of both perverse and non-perverse people.
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CAN SEX-SCRIPTS BE TRACED TO CHILDHOOD?,
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Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
Observing the Erotic Imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985) 228 pages This collection of papers by a wise and mature psychoanalyst presents more raw material for a comprehensive theory of human sexuality. Childhood experiences create sex-scripts that persist into adulthood. Humiliation is a common theme of the sex-scripts explored in this book. The child's mind attempts to create stories that compensate for and correct something that went wrong in childhood --to transform trauma into triumph. Some sex-scripts delight in feeling perverse --doing something forbidden, getting away with something naughty. The most important chapters deal with the following themes: perversion and the desire to harm; erotics/esthetics; a professional sex-worker; obscenity; homosexuality; Sambia sex; transvestism in women; & erotic vomiting. If you would like to know about other books along this line, search the Internet for the following bibliography: "SEXOLOGY---SEX-SCRIPTS---BEST BOOKS". James Leonard Park, author of Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology.
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Having come on almost no one in the psychoanalytic, psychiatric, psychologic, or other literatures I read who agrees (or disagrees) with me, in this chapter I again take up suggestions made in earlier books (Stoller 1975, 1979). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Having come on almost no one in the psychoanalytic, psychiatric, psychologic, or other literatures I read who agrees (or disagrees) with me, in this chapter I again take up suggestions made in earlier books (Stoller 1975, 1979). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bruce King, New Guinea, Marked Masculinity, Masculine Impulses, Minnie the Mermaid, The Erotic Fetishism New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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