Рубрика: Our Sexuality

Sexual Orientations

Copyright 2012 Cengage Leamim^AiiMIHhfR Editorial review has deemed ‘that any suppressed cof| My life as a young lesbian was very different from the lesbian youth I see today. No one I knew talked about homosexuality, and I dated boys because my friends did. I was in my early thirties before my first sexual experience with […]

Intercourse the Tantric Way

The concept of male orgasm as the ultimate point of heterosexual intercourse is alien to the concepts and practices of Tantric sex (Yarian & Anders, 2006). Margo Anand, in her book The Art of Sexual Ecstasy (1991), explains that Tantra was an ancient Eastern path of spiritual enlightenment, begun in India around 5000 BCE. Tantric […]

Coitus and Coital Positions

A heterosexual couple can choose a wide range of positions for penile-vaginal inter­course, or coitus. ■ Table 8.7 shows college students’ three favorite positions. Many people have a favorite position yet enjoy others, as shown in I Figures 8.7 through 8.11. A 30-year-old man stated: Different intercourse positions usually express and evoke particular emotions for […]

Anal Stimulation

Anal sex among heterosexuals has become more common in the United States. The NSSHB study found that 20% of men ages 25 to 49 and women ages 20 to 39 reported anal sex in the last year. The percentages of people who have had anal sex at least once in their lifetimes have doubled—40% of […]

SEXUALITY and DIVERSITY

Oral Sex Experiences Among American Men and Women The National Health and Social Life Survey (Laumann et al., 1994) questioned men and women of different ethnic, educational, and religious backgrounds to compare their experiences of oral sex. The findings are summarized in ■ Table 8.6. In general, White Americans (both men and women) have the […]

Oral-Genital Stimulation

Both the mouth and the genitals are primary biological erogenous zones, areas of the body generously endowed with sensory nerve endings. Thus couples that are psycho­logically comfortable with oral-genital stimulation often find both giving and receiv­ing it to be highly pleasurable. Oral-genital contact can produce pleasure, arousal, or orgasm. As one woman stated: I think […]

Touching

Touch is one of the first and most important senses that we experience when we emerge in this world. Infants who have been fed but deprived of this basic stimula­tion have died for lack of it. A classic animal study showed that when baby monkeys’ and other primates’ physical needs were met but they were […]

Kissing

Many of us can remember our first romantic kiss; most likely it was combined with feelings of awkwardness. Kissing can be an intense, erotic, profound experi­ence. The lips and mouth are generously endowed with sensitive, pleasure-pro­ducing nerve endings that make it feel good to kiss and to be kissed in infinite variations. The classical Indian […]

Kissing and Touching

i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling — firm-smoothness and which i […]

The Maltz Hierarchy

The context within which sexual experiences occur is critically important in deter­mining whether they are positive for individuals and relationships. Author and sex therapist Wendy Maltz developed a model of sexual expression that describes levels of constructive and destructive sexual experiences (Maltz, 2001). Maltz sees sexual energy as a neutral force; however, the intent and […]