Psychology: sexual behaviour Books

First published in 1981, this title takes a 'sociobiological' approach to the exploration of sexual habits, looking at the fundamental biological nature of humans. The book covers the spectrum of human sexuality, considering love and marriage, variant...

Grounded in the cognitive-behavioral approach, The Dilemmas of Intimacy focuses exclusively on understanding, assessing, and treating common problems with intimacy. Intimacy offers both risks and rewards, which create three dilemmas that every couple...

This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the...

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional wisdom asserts that women's estrus has been evolutionarily lost, Randy...

Using rich case material and research presented by distinguished authorities in the fields of sex, couple, family, and psychotherapy, this edited book contributes to our efforts to help individuals and couples increase their sexual satisfaction. The...

Through extensive consideration of current research, theory and practice, Treating Sexual Offenders provides a guide to the assessment, treatment, and evaluation of a number of different disorders. Provides therapists with the means to have a continued...

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere traces her journey traces her journey from dressmaker's apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund Freud's patient and his favourite translator. Marion Bower examines Riviere's important...

This book discusses the never-ending effort of men to shape themselves in relation to shifting and elusive notions of "masculinity".

Featuring over 70 affirming interventions in the form of homework assignments, handouts, and activities, this comprehensive volume helps novice and experienced counselors support LGBTQ+ community members and their allies. Each chapter includes an...

Winner of the 2021 AASECT Book Award!Winner of the SSTAR Professional Book Award 2021!Winner of the SASH Media Award 2022!The Leather Couch provides a comprehensive overview of the BDSM and kink community and guides clinicians on how to meet the unique...

Treći dio povijesnog serijala U okovimaPriča čiji ćete kraj pamtiti dugo. Priča puna naboja, inata, iskrica i promjena.Sabina Hardy, kao francuska gospođica kojoj su pravila i društvene norme mrski, i Abbot Langdon, kao londonski plemić koji bez tih isti...

The last half-century has seen enormous changes in society's attitude toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the United States were routinely arrested; today, homosexual activity between consenting adults is legal in every state, with same-sex...

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.This comprehensive guide is deeply rooted in the science of sexology and psychotherapy, demonstrating why it is time to...

Brief Multilingual Poetry Book commemorating my spoken word performance. It celebrates self love, women's empowerment, and the release of toxic love.

This book explores the unique issues involved in assessing, diagnosing, intervening, and treating intimate partner violence (IPV) in the LGBTQ+ population.

This interdisciplinary book bridges the gap between sexuality and leadership studies and serves as a blueprint for professionals seeking to understand the rationale behind leadership styles, particularly those which facilitate conversations...

Have too much self-control?Society tells you self-control is great; it's a virtue. Yet, your success in managing emotions, getting the job done, getting accolades for being detail-oriented, planful, driven, etc. haven't led to success in your intimate...

In this fascinating book, Caroline Blyth takes a close look at Bibles marketed to teen girls and asks how these might perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that lie at the heart of rape culture. The author considers the devotionals, commentaries, and...

Winner of the 2009 Smart Marriages® Impact Award Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style introduces a totally new approach to developing sexual comfort and confidence. Sex is not about performance or proving something to yourself or your partner. Healthy...

Iz gomile zgodnih tipova priđe vam onaj najintrigantniji, najdojmljiviji i daleko najzgodniji.Gleda vas kao da ništa drugo na svijetu ne postoji, kao da se poznajete oduvijek.I predloži vam nešto nemoralno. Traži samo jednu noć.Pod njegovim uvjetima i za...

This book offers a unique understanding of African American populations and their articulation of sexuality and race by introducing a comprehensive sexological model, Black Sexual Epistemology. Tracie Q. Gilbert draws from theoretical perspectives of...

The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction presents an evolutionary history of romantic love, male-female pair-bonding, same-sex friendship, and sexual attraction, drawing on sexuality research, gay and lesbian studies,...

Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "unknown" text. In this book Freud's 1905 theory of sexuality is reconstructed in its historical context, its...

Maha Nasrallah-Babenko presents a culturally sensitive and uniquely accessible guide that equips clinicians, student sex therapists, and female clients with the tools to confidently treat genito-pelvic pain and penetration disorders (GPPPD).　Addressing...

A love story portrayed through poetry. A first-person narrative that depicts unrequited sentiment while toying with the idea of hope and future reciprocity.

The King of Erotica™ 8: (Book 2 of 2), continues where PHAROAH leaves off. After secretly seeking the help of psychiatrist Lord Jennings, Pharoah has poured his heart and soul out to a man that scribbled his life on memo pads, and spoken into whirling...

This book addresses the richness and depth of our intimate relationships and especially those moments when we come to see ourselves and the other person in a new way. In such moments we realize that however much we are influenced by heredity and...

This unique book examines the relationship between wounding and sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender, power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and...

Psychological and medical perspectives on sadomasochism have historically been concerned with understanding it as a form of psychopathology. In the past (but still often today) studies of S/M have been concerned with extreme and most often non-consensual...

Based on three years of extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses. Tiantian Zheng delves into the interplay of gender...

The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is a ground-breaking resource for therapists working with LGBTQ+ clients whose identity expressions span all gender-, sex-, and relationship-diverse groups. Combining the author's extensive...

Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of these interventions by comparing the status and treatment...

This volume is the result of a 1996 international gathering hosted by The Kinsey Institute to address survey research into sexual behavior, driven predominantly by concern over HIV infection and AIDS and the need to establish the frequency of behaviors...

Here is an important work that uniquely focuses on both gay/queer-self-identified men from diverse minority communities (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander) and men of these ethnic communities...