With Pleasure : Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality: Thoughts on the Nature of Human SexualityPaul R. Abramson Professor of Psychology, Los Angeles Steven D. Pinkerton Post-doctoral Fellow both of the University of California Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 M11 9 - 320 páginas Challenging everything from the mandates of the Catholic Church to the hotly debated ethics of pornography, and from the controversy surrounding gay rights to issues of gender and feminism, With Pleasure explores a new theory of human sexuality that ignites every hot topic in the public domain. What role, authors Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton ask, does sexual pleasure play in our lives? Is the pursuit of sexual enjoyment in our blood? Our brains? Our very nature? Regardless of the source, it can be agreed that the joys of sex are widely appreciated. Why, then, is pleasure so often overlooked in discussions of sexual behavior, and why do cultural, historical, and religious treatises so often fail to emphasize, or outright ignore, this obvious aspect of human sexuality? Responding to these and many other questions about our most private affairs, With Pleasure provides a profoundly original challenge to the cherished truisms of human sexuality. Abramson and Pinkerton proclaim the paramount importance of pleasure, while at the same time overthrowing traditional ideas about gender, pornography, contraception, homosexuality, abortion, and much more. Supported by rigorous research and co-written by one of the foremost authorities on sex, With Pleasure argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors posit that in humans reproduction itself occurs as a byproduct of pleasure--not the other way around--and that it is the strong drive for pleasure that makes people overcome many obstacles--and even life-threatening dangers such as AIDS--to have sex. Ranging from discussions about the church to current debates about pornography, and from evolutionary theory to questions about the future of sex and pleasure, Abramson and Pinkerton argue persuasively that the pleasurability of sex cannot be restricted to purely reproductive behavior. With Pleasure advances a startling and original new theory about human sexuality, one which the authors believe will replace all existing notions about sex. The book, standing in direct and deliberate opposition to traditions that try to confine sexuality to procreation, is sure to ignite a firestorm of controversy. |
Contenido
3 | |
21 | |
Oral Sex as a Form of Birth Control | 30 |
The Two Types of Pleasure | 39 |
The Qualia of Life | 45 |
The Regulation and Marketing of Sexual Pleasure | 53 |
The Biology of Sexual Pleasure | 82 |
Pleasure Centers in the Brain | 89 |
Family Affairs | 131 |
The Primordial Onion | 137 |
The End of Pleasure? | 148 |
Tempest on a Soapbox | 166 |
The Future of Sex | 202 |
Contextual Glossary for Chapter 4 | 211 |
Notes | 223 |
References | 261 |
Designer Genes? | 100 |
The Hormones Made Me Do It | 106 |
Sex with the Lights Out | 112 |
Index | 287 |
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Página 23 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Página 23 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Página 257 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Página 18 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Página 198 - Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck, then the Breast and Arms; The lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: so that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.
Página 32 - Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain — that is, the fittest would survive.
Página 198 - But if you will not take this counsel, and persist in thinking a commerce with the sex inevitable, then I repeat my former advice, that in all your amours you should prefer old women to young ones.
Página 195 - Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. The portrayal of sex, eg, in art, literature and scientific works, is not itself sufficient reason to deny material the constitutional protection of freedom of speech and press.
Página 27 - And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
Página 228 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro...
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Soziologie der Sexualität: erotischer Körper, intimes Handeln und Sexualkultur Rüdiger Lautmann Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |