Lovesex: an integrative model for sexual education
by Laffy, Cabby
This book looks at how our brains, minds, bodies, and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality, and how we can create a sense of sexual self-esteem and a nutritious sexual diet for ourselves. As Laffy notes in her Introduction, 'we think and talk about sex as something we do, rather than sexuality being something that we have; and being sexual, as something that we are. We talk little about feeling sexual or the emotional and relational reasons for sexual desire; about the fact t…
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- Full title :Lovesex : an integrative model for sexual education / Cabby Laffy ; illustrations by Tessa Gaynn ; on behalf of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Summary
This book looks at how our brains, minds, bodies, and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality, and how we can create a sense of sexual self-esteem and a nutritious sexual diet for ourselves. As Laffy notes in her Introduction, 'we think and talk about sex as something we do, rather than sexuality being something that we have; and being sexual, as something that we are. We talk little about feeling sexual or the emotional and relational reasons for sexual desire; about the fact that it is usually an 'other' that we want to be sexual with. Our focus seems to be on how much sex we.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Karnac Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:London, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782410737, 1782410732, 1299283977, 9781299283978, 9781781812051, 1781812055, 0429476965, 9780429476969
- oclc:ocn847969964
- LC Classification:HQ32
- Dewey Decimal:176
Table of Contents
COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF EXERCISES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; A new model for sexuality; Introduction to sexploration exercises; PART I MIND: THOUGHTS AND CHOICES; The mind; Inner dialogue; Beliefs; Sexual language; Sexual culture; Sex and reproduction; The pleasure principle; Sex and power; Looking good; Sexual identity; Sexual values; Sex, love, and relationships; What if ...?; PART II BODY: SEXUAL ANATOMY; The body; Inside out; The proud penis; The wonderful womb; The voluptuous vulva; The cunning clitoris; Outside in; Want somebody.
Happy hormonesThe nervous system; PART III BRAIN: PASSION AND DESIRE; The brain; The busy brain; The limbic system; Human universals; Us and them; Getting hot; Build the charge; All together now; Go with the flow; PART IV EMOTION: FEELINGS AND INTUITION; Emotion; Dark side of the moon; Truth and lies; Full of feelings; Shame and sexuality; Pain or pleasure; Playing with fire; Sexual violence; Safer sex; Relationships; Soul food; Make love, not war; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; INDEX.
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