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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.