Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1.The Power of Love — Introduction
2.Meet the Gender Transpositions — Erotic subtypes discussed in the book
3.Sexual Arousal: Ten Unsolved Problems — such as the “pseudo-lesbian porn puzzle”, or the “exhibitionism puzzle”
4.The S*x Taboo — and how it cripples our society
5.Reality or Social Construction? — Are things like “homosexuality” real, or
just constructed by society?
6.Limerence, Lust, and Bisexuality: A New Theory — of types of attraction. This theory explains how someone might “fall in lust” with one sex but only
“fall in love” with the other sex.
7.The Periodic-Table Model — How the gender transpositions can be arranged
8.Plethysmography — Direct genital measurement as an amazing and insightful scientific technique
9.Families of Origin: Sissies, Tomboys, Brothers, Sisters — How sexual preferences are related to childhood personality traits and parental caring patterns
10.Soft Science, Hard Knocks: When Sex and Violence Mix — How can something as wonderful as love sometimes get connected to pain and suffering?
11.Courtship Theory — The secret ways women attract men, and why men don’t know about them
12. Homosexuality in Animals — Gay or bisexual animals? Why not?!??
13.Sociobiology and the Gender Transpositions — How evolution explains homosexuality, transsexualism, and other non-reproductive behaviors
14.The Big Picture — Solving the ten problems from chapter 3
15.Conclusions — Why responsible openness about sex is vital to society
16.References
17.Index — The index page numbers do point accurately to page numbers in this new edition.