num_pages: 265
description: We may not want to admit it but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in Perv there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. Whether its voyeurism exhibitionism or your run-of-the-mill foot fetish we all possess a suite of sexual tastes as unique as our fingerprintsand as secret as the rest of the skeletons weve hidden in our closets.Combining cutting-edge studies and critiques of landmark research and conclusions drawn by Sigmund Freud Alfred Kinsey and the DSM-5 Bering pulls the curtain back on paraphilias arguing that sexual deviance is commonplace. Bering confronts hypocrisy prejudice and harm as they relate to sexuality on a global scale. Humanizing so-called deviants while at the same time asking serious questions about the differences between thought and action he presents us with a challenge: to understand that our best hope of solving some of the most troubling problems of our age hinges entirely on the amoral study of sex.
language: English
title: Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us
publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux