Sexual Diversity: Being Human through Understanding and Acceptance

Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 114
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 98107
- ISBN 13 : 9781800133716
- ISBN 10 : 1800133715
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Why this book?
1.2. A note on language and learning
1.3. My positionality
1.4. The “norms”
1.5. Patriarchy: A note on masculinity
2. An overview of sexuality
2.1. The brief history of sexuality
2.2. Exploring our biases
2.3. The beginning
2.4. Sexuality: Nature or nurture?
2.5. Sexuality: Affirmation and exploration
2.6. Sexual diversity: The biopsychosocial model
2.7. Sexuality, romance, and eroticism
2.8. The definition of sex-positivity
3. The diversity of sexual orientations
3.1. What is a sexual orientation?
3.2. Sexual expressions
3.3. Sexual orientation diversities
3.4. Minority stress
4. The diversity of erotic orientations
4.1. Don’t yuck someone’s yum
4.2. The erotic palette
4.3. Erotic orientations
4.4. The five cornerstones of eroticism
4.5. The ten types of erotic boosters
4.6. The somatic erotic pathways
4.7. The erotic equation
4.8. The meaning of sexual urges
4.9. Erotic fantasies
4.10. Vanilla, kink, and fetish
4.11. A note on erotocentrism
5. The diversity of sexual behaviours
5.1. Sexual behaviours
5.2. The six principles of sexual health
5.3. Exploring client’s erotic mind
5.4. Motivation for sex
5.5. Sexual satisfaction
5.6. A note on problematic sexual behaviours
Conclusion
References
Further reading: Books I recommend
Index