Download Now. Read Online. The Psychology of Human Sexuality New edition of an authoritative guide to human sexual behavior from a biopsychosocial perspective The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Psychology of Human Sexuality explores the roles that biology, psychology, and the social and cultural context play in shaping human sexual behavior.
Download Now Read Online Advertisement. Share on: Twitter Facebook. The Psychology of Human Sexuality psikologx 4. Of course, this book will not focus on psychology to the total exclusion of other factors, because that would ultimately do a disservice to readers by providing an utterly imbalanced perspective. I have therefore sought to put psychology front and center throughout, but also to give due consideration to biological, evolutionary, and sociocultural influences on sexuality where relevant.
As some of you may recognize, this book mirrors the biopsychosocial perspective adopted in most health psychology textbooks. When it comes to teaching a sexuality course, my philosophy is to be sex-positive. I have heard people define sex-positive in many different ways, but my personal definition involves: 1 adopting comprehensive and inclusive definitions of gender and sexual orientation; 2 rejecting narrow definitions about what constitutes sex e.
I kept this philosophy in mind when writing this book with the goal of making it as inclusive and respectful as possible for a diverse audience. Although I have done my best to present the information in this book with great sensitivity, I fully recognize that not everyone will agree with everything I have written, despite the fact that it is all based in science.
Some of the topics we will cover may challenge your beliefs or make you feel uneasy. This is to be expected. Indeed, it is not uncommon for sex research to make people uncomfortable, which is part of the reason why this field is—and always has been—highly controversial. Should you find that you disagree with something in this book, please avoid the temptation to ignore, dismiss, or attack it.
The integrity of this field and the advancement of science fundamentally depend upon a free exchange of ideas and a willingness to consider new and different perspectives. Overall, this important and comprehensive text provides readers with a better understanding of, and appreciation for, the science of sex and the amazing complexity of human sexuality.
Features broad coverage of topics including anatomy, gender and sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, sexual difficulties and solutions, prostitution, and pornography Offers more in-depth treatment of relationships than comparable texts, with separate chapters dealing with attraction and relationship processes Includes cutting-edge research on the origins of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as new treatments for sexually transmitted infections and sexual dysfunctions Is written from a sex-positive perspective, with expanded coverage of cross-cultural research throughout and material that is inclusive and respectful of a diverse audience Includes numerous activities to facilitate dynamic, interactive classroom environments Written for students of human sexuality and anyone interested in the topic, The Psychology of Human Sexuality offers a guide to the psychology of human sexual behavior that is at once inclusive, thorough, and authoritative in its approach.
Psychological Perspectives on Human Sexuality offers a comprehensive and much-needed empirical examination of human sexuality. It is the first book in the field to speak to the needs of both the social scientist and the mental health professional.
This important work also provides a complete scientific survey of the latest research along with guidance for its application to clinical practice. Researchers, clinicians, and students alike will value this collection of critical reviews covering a broad range of contemporary scientific inquiry into human sexuality. Sexual Misconduct. To that extent it is analogous to the physical and psychic changes which accompany the gradual filling of the bladder and precede its evacuation. External stimuli act at every stage, arousing or heightening the process of tumescence, and in normal human beings it may be said that the process is never completed without the aid of such stimuli, for even in the auto-erotic sphere external stimuli are still active, either actually or in imagination.
The chief stimuli which influence tumescence and thus direct sexual choice come chiefly—indeed, exclusively—through the four senses of touch, smell, hearing, and sight. All the phenomena of sexual selection, so far as they are based externally, act through these four senses. When, therefore, we are exploring the nature of the influence which stimuli, acting through the sensory channels, exert on the strength and direction of the sexual impulse, we are intimately concerned with the process by which the actual form and color, not alone of living things generally, but of our own species, have been shaped and are still being shaped.
At the same time, it is probable, we are exploring the mystery which underlies all the subtle appreciations, all the emotional undertones, which are woven in the web of the whole world as it appeals to us through those sensory passages by which alone it can reach us.
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