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With pleasure : thoughts on the nature of human sexuality / Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1423740556
  • 9781423740551
  • 0195357582
  • 9780195357585
  • 9780195093582
  • 0195093585
  • 1280441992
  • 9781280441998
  • 9786610441990
  • 6610441995
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: With pleasure.DDC classification:
  • 306.7 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ23 .A25 1995eb
NLM classification:
  • 1996 C-368
  • HQ 23
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Sex as Procreation: Is That All There Is?; 3. The Regulation and Marketing of Sexual Pleasure; 4. The Biology of Sexual Pleasure; 5. The Psychology of Sexual Pleasure; 6. AIDS: The End of Pleasure?; 7. Porn: Tempest on a Soapbox; Epilogue: The Future of Sex; Appendix A: Contextual Glossary for Chapter 4; Appendix B: Mathematical Models of HIV Transmission; Notes; References; Index.
Summary: This study argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors define sexual pleasure as a unifying phenomenon to account for the practices of sexuality. They show that reproduction itself occurs as a by-product of pleasure.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.

1. Introduction; 2. Sex as Procreation: Is That All There Is?; 3. The Regulation and Marketing of Sexual Pleasure; 4. The Biology of Sexual Pleasure; 5. The Psychology of Sexual Pleasure; 6. AIDS: The End of Pleasure?; 7. Porn: Tempest on a Soapbox; Epilogue: The Future of Sex; Appendix A: Contextual Glossary for Chapter 4; Appendix B: Mathematical Models of HIV Transmission; Notes; References; Index.

This study argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors define sexual pleasure as a unifying phenomenon to account for the practices of sexuality. They show that reproduction itself occurs as a by-product of pleasure.

Print version record.

English.

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