Sexual Essays

Gender, Desire, and Nakedness

James Giles

Sexuality is a basic feature of human life. Gender, sexual and romantic attraction, sexual excitement, and sexual desire and fantasies all move in various degrees through our daily awareness. However, despite this pervasiveness, there is much disagreement surrounding the nature of such things and experiences. This book explores just these issues in an attempt to get clear about this enigmatic aspect of our existence. Through a series of interrelated essays, internationally acclaimed philosopher James Giles takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the depths of experiential, social, biological, and evolutionary aspects of sexual life. Presenting his arguments and ideas in a clear and easy to follow language, Giles criticizes several popular views, clearing the way for his own unique vision of human sexuality. Often controversial, always engaging, these pages will prove to be absorbing reading for anyone who has ever pondered the nature of sexuality and why it fills our lives in the way it does.

Hamilton Books

Pages: 148 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6889-7 • Paperback • November 2017 • $33.99 • (£25.00)

978-0-7618-6890-3 • eBook • November 2017 • $32.00 • (£25.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Essays, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Pornography, Social Science / Deviance

Sexual Essays

Gender, Desire, and Nakedness

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Summary

Sexuality is a basic feature of human life. Gender, sexual and romantic attraction, sexual excitement, and sexual desire and fantasies all move in various degrees through our daily awareness. However, despite this pervasiveness, there is much disagreement surrounding the nature of such things and experiences. This book explores just these issues in an attempt to get clear about this enigmatic aspect of our existence. Through a series of interrelated essays, internationally acclaimed philosopher James Giles takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the depths of experiential, social, biological, and evolutionary aspects of sexual life. Presenting his arguments and ideas in a clear and easy to follow language, Giles criticizes several popular views, clearing the way for his own unique vision of human sexuality. Often controversial, always engaging, these pages will prove to be absorbing reading for anyone who has ever pondered the nature of sexuality and why it fills our lives in the way it does.

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Hamilton Books

Pages: 148 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6889-7 • Paperback • November 2017 • $33.99 • (£25.00)

978-0-7618-6890-3 • eBook • November 2017 • $32.00 • (£25.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Essays, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Pornography, Social Science / Deviance

Author

James Giles, PhD, is adjunct professor of psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark, and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Cambridge Institute for continuing Education. He has also taught at Universities in Australia, Canada, Hawaii, and Guam. His published works include Sexual Attraction: The Psychology of Allure, The Nature of Sexual Desire, No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity, and A Study in Phenomenalism.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Meaning of “Gender”
2. The Erotic Meanings of the Sexual Positions
3. Sex Hormones and Sexual Desire
4. Social Constructionism and Sexual Desire
5. Gilbert Herdt on Sambia Sexual Culture
6. No Such Thing as Excessive Levels of Sexual Behaviour
7. Age Dysphoria and Sexual Desire: A Case Study
8. Naked Love: The Evolution of Human Hairlessness
References
Index

Sexual Essays

Gender, Desire, and Nakedness

James Giles

Sexual Essays

Gender, Desire, and Nakedness

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