This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined in Perversion. This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book - perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined in my last book, Perversion. As many have noted since Freud said it decades ago, it is so difficult to draw a line between excitement one can call "perverse" and normal excitement that the word "normal" loses definition. From the Introduction by the Author The other four books are: Sex and Gender: the Development of Masculinity and Femininity The Transsexual Experiment Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity Perversion: The Erotic form of Hatred "It is a pleasure to give an unreserved welcome to Stoller's book…he covers both psychological and biological anomalies of sexual identity which he has been studying clinically for ten years" Hugh Freeman, "New Society" "Dr.Stoller's contribution must rank as a milestone in our understanding of the development of masculinity and feminity and can do a great deal to alleviate some fundamental uncertainties in this area". Sydney Brandon "British Medical Journal" Robert J. Stoller M.D. Was until his death Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine. His many books on human sexuality include, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, Pain and Passion: A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S and M, Observing the Erotic Imagination and Presentations of Gender.
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