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" Who's been sleeping in your head? : "
Brett Kahr.
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BL
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656711
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Kahr, Brett.
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Who's been sleeping in your head? : : the secret world of sexual fantasies /\ Brett Kahr.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Basic Books,, c2008.
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xiii, 493 p. ;; 25 cm.
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9780465037667 (alk. paper)
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: 0465037666 (alk. paper)
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: 9780465037674
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: 0465037674
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Rev. ed. of: Sex and the psyche.
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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A note on caution and confidentiality -- Introduction : on the couch at 7:00 a.m. -- The secret cinema in our minds -- Why we make love with the lights out -- The science of psychological fingerprints -- The intra-marital affair : staging our private theater -- A cornucopia of fantasies -- Fantasy 101 : tales of ordinary explicitness -- Group formations : threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes -- Cheating : when the intra-marital meets the extramarital -- I'm ready for my close-up : fantasies of celebrities -- Is your wife a lesbian? Is your husband homosexual? Is your gay lover really straight? -- On genital exhibitionism -- The erotic smorgasbord : fetishism, transvestism, homeovestism, and other forms of object-love -- Humiliation and the infliction of shame -- Incest : do we really fancy our family? -- Can I be arrested for my fantasies? : extreme sexual violence -- Teenagers and children -- Sugar and spice and everything nice -- The origins of sexual fantasy -- The underbelly of the normal fantasy : erotic freedom or sublimated sadism? -- "They've scraped out my soul" : struggling with shame and humiliation -- Case history : Paris and the ginger pubic hair -- The traumatic roots of sexual fantasy -- The fourteen functions of sexual fantasy -- The mysterious boxing gloves, or, can fantasies be trauma-free? -- Sexual fantasies and the outside world -- Do fantasies ruin relationships? -- Normality and prevention in the bedroom and the boardroom -- Sanctum sanctorum, or, probing the unprobable -- Appendix. The sexual fantasy research questionnaire -- Announcement : the sexual fantasy research project.
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Presents and analyzes the results of a study of the sexual fantasies of over 23,000 men and women of all ages, discussing stories of specific individuals, the role of fantasy in waking life, and the functions of these fantasies.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sexual fantasies.
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155.3/1
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BF692.K27 2008
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Kahr, Brett.
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