Facing the Complexities of Women's Sexual Desire

• Main Author: Maass, Vera Sonja (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer 2007
• Subjects: Sex Counseling > methods; Sexuality > psychology; Women > psychology
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• Physical Description: xi, 228 pages 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and indexes
• ISBN: 9780387331683 (hardback); 0387331689 (hardback)

This book represents a broad-based approach to a narrow but complex issue. The issue causes distress for many and has been instrumental in family disruption and divorce. Women's sexual desire-whether it is too little or too much-has become an issue of growing concern and vague promises for solution. In the meantime, the women are looking for answers, consulting professionals in the field of human sexuality, physicians or therapists, media advice and self-help books. The material discussed in this book is not part of any structured research. The women encountered in the pages of this book have not been selected on a random basis. Some have been clients, some are volunteers from the general population and another group is made up of undergraduate college students. The college s- dents came from a varied ethnic and cultural background while the clients mainly were of white and African American background. The volunteers were predo- nantly from a white middle-class population. There is no claim that the women are representative of all women in the general population.