With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality

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, this book 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 hum

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Abramson, Paul R.; Pinkerton, Steven D.

ISBN:

978-0-19-514609-7

Specialty:

• Psychology

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

328

Publication Year:

2002

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