The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self

Description

This book is a wake-up call to the erotic spirit in all of us. Drawing on the insights of counselors and the wisdom of poets, The Erotic Impulse serves up a feast of thoughts, feelings, findings, and fantasies about our erotic nature.

Contributors examine how society denies and dishonors the healing power of Eros, leading to widespread feelings of fear, isolation, and inadequacy. Together they break the reader out of the prison of cultural stereotypes, opening wide the gates to a richer erotic life.

Topics include differences in sexual attitudes between men and women, gays and straights; the role of erotic art and fantasy; pornography and censorship; and sexual spirituality and self-discovery.

The Erotic Impulse offers a liberating vision of human sexual potential for those who seek to expand and deepen this area of life.

Edited by David Steinberg

Tarcher/Putnam, 1992, 288 pages; 6-1/8″ x 9-1/4″, 0-87477-697-X