Human Sexuality category: 1501 books

When published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding...

Parents often disagree with their children over their choice of partner. Although the reasons may vary the outcome is very often one of conflict – a conflict peculiar to the human species. For the first time in one volume, Sexual Selection under Parental Choice employs an evolutionary perspective...

Iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet, this extremely common...

How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors sur­rounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we’ll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brains. How does...

“A book that strips off the traditional trappings of Islamic womanhood to expose the special strengths and vulnerabilities that lie beneath.” —The Washington Post Romance, dating, sex and—Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-five American Muslim writers sweep aside...

“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force...

Some years ago, Lawrence Block wrote a successful series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior. This volume is an examination, through case histories and interviews, of female bisexuality. One of this book's six versatile ladies sums it up like this: "When we first...

Some years ago, Lawrence Block wrote a successful series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior. This volume is an examination, through a single detailed case history, of a marriage given over to the exchange of sexual partners. This was John Warren Wells' first book for Dell,...

This vintage text contains Havelock Ellis's seminal treatise on the psychology of sex. This fascinating book deals with the importance of the sexual impulse in the human condition, and tackles subjects such as marriage, biology, deviation, and more. The 'Psychology of Sex' will appeal to students...

This study of the invasion of compulsory sexual morality into human society was written in 1931 and now appears for the first time in the English language. It preceded "The Mass Psyhchology of Fascism" and "The Sexual Revolution" and was Reich's first step in approaching the answer...

Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating. This is the first serious scholarly effort to explore that interface, by examining both universal and individual differences in human mating intelligenc

“A relationship is not just about sex – it is much more than that. Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself.” One of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers rises with a breath-taking work of scientific philosophy in the path of a healthy relationship. Here the celebrated...

The ancient Gnostics proclaimed a message of "Sin for Salvation". But how can sinning save your soul? Why is Gnosticism so much psychologically healthier than the evil religions of Abrahamism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam?This book by the Pythagorean Illuminati, the most ancient secret society...

In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the evolutionary...