A Sexual Odyssey

From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex

Kenneth E. Maxwell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

319 Seiten

1996 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-45405-9 (ISBN)

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The Brave New World of Sex We've seen in less than a generation a swift revolution in human sexual behavior, attitude, and consequences so dramatic that some people are left in a state of stunned dismay and the public at large in aimless confusion. Much of the trend, if you can call a revolu tion a trend, is fueled by, or at least made possible by, technological innovations dating back to the middle of the twentieth century. The birth control pill opened the gate to promiscuity with little fear of pregnancy; marriage became an annoyance; divorce be came an opportunity; two working parents became a necessity; and teenage sex became nearly as socially acceptable as holding hands or going to the movies. The copulation explosion resulted in a spiraling epidemic of children giving birth to children, many of them on welfare. Girls seeking relief through abortions were sometimes forced to have their unwanted offspring despite the inevitability of some of them living in poverty and a desperate dead-end environment of squalor and crime. Some misguidedly wanted babies and ended up the same way. To top it all, discipline 2 A Sexual Odyssey became a lost art, leaving schools and neighborhoods infested with gun-toting, knife-wielding teenage delinquents-even in middle-class areas-who engaged in contests fo see who could get the most girls knocked up. The chaotic state of fornication, mating, and birthing may be a throwback to the past.

Introduction: The Brave New World of Sex.- One The Naked Truth.- Two The Impossible Dream.- Three Joys “R” Us.- Four The Sex Wars.- Five Bed Roles.- Six The Masculine Mystique.- Seven Mating for Money.- Eight Same-Sex Sex.- Nine Making Babies.- Ten Tempest in a Test Tube.- Eleven The Copulation Explosion.- Twelve Cybersex.- Thirteen Future Sex.- Endnotes.

Zusatzinfo	VIII, 319 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-306-45405-X / 030645405X
ISBN-13	978-0-306-45405-9 / 9780306454059
Zustand	Neuware