Perv

the sexual deviant in all of us

265 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-374-23089-0
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OCLC Number:
827257005

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"A look at our complex relationship with our carnal urges and the way we disguise, deny, and shame the sexual deviant in all of us"--

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Jesse Bering, award-winning columnist and psychologist, wants to talk about perversions. We are deviants in one form or another; we may not be paedophiles, or into voyeurism and exhibitionism but there maybe something in our past we rather not discuss. In Perv, Jesse Bering looks at the psychology of having a fetish outside the norm and compares it to the difficulties he faced growing up in the 70s and 80s as a gay man.

This is an interesting book; it doesn’t condone sexual abuse or committing a sex crime. This rather looks at the psychology of paraphilia’s and makes the reader think about it in a different light. Just because someone has a fetish for something unusual doesn’t make them any less human. Bering looks at cultural thought, imprinting, conditioning and compares them to his own struggles as a homosexual.

While he looks at things like zoophiles, paedophiles and bestiality, …

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Subjects

  • Paraphilias
  • Sex