Body And Soul
Subtitle: SEXUALITY ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Plenum Press; Insight Books
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780306454004
Subjects: Customs; Family & relationships; Gender studies; Sexual behaviour; Human Sexuality; Sexuality; Manners And Customs; Sex Relations; Love / Sex / Marriage; Sex; Sex (Psychology); Sex customs; Sociology
Description: Body and Soul: Sexually on the Brink of Change takes an intriguing look at sexual mores steeped in our culture and explains why they remain anchored. Dr. Anne Stirling Hastings, an innovative psychologist specializing in sexuality issues, draws on her own sexual healing and study of cultural myths regarding sexuality to envision what take for society to exist in a sexually healthy atmosphere. She describes our cultures as sexually addictive, showing how that status is.

Maintained by the broadcast media and advertising, as well as by prurient "old wives tales" handed down by tradition. The author confronts our most closely held views of sexuality, such as the belief in a powerful dominating sex drive, and the perception of monogamy as an ideal to force ourselves to live up to. She also explains how sexual harassment can be seen as a perversion of the mating dance, and how traditional sex therapy actually encourages the use of cultural.

Distortion. Dr. Hastings includes intriguing information on how sexuality can be healed, and how shame should be removed outright instead of merely avoided.