The Nature of Sexual Desire
University Press of America (2008)
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James Giles
Roskilde University
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The Nature of Sexual Desire takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the psychology, philosophy, and anthropology of this most urgent of human desires. Examining both ancient writings and modern research, both Eastern and Western thought, the author argues that sexual desire is a continuous element in awareness and can only be understood in terms of our experience. The experience of sexual desire is explored and its relation to sexual interaction, erotic pleasure, the experience of gender, and romantic love, is skilfully unravelled. Sexual desire is presented in a new light: an existential need that is continually sweeping through us, pulling us on to one of life’s highest fulfilments.
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Keywords | sexual desire romantic love gender vulnerability care reciprocity erotic pleasure existential need phenomenology |
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ISBN(s) | 0761840419 9780761840411 |
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