For Yourself

The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality (Revised and Updated)

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$7.99 US
On sale Dec 01, 2000 | 256 Pages | 9780451202000

For Yourself offers a step-by-step program developed by an acclaimed sex therapist with years of experience in the field. With an emphasis on clear, factual advice, simple, effective exercises, and a warm, reassuring tone, it helps women discover a new world of fulfillment - for themselves.

Includes:

  • 225 A detailed description of female sexual response
  • 225 Step-by-step exercises that will help gradually awaken dormant sexuality
  • 225 Explanations that dispel misunderstandings about sex and sexual response
  • 225 Insights into the essential role of mental and emotional attitude toward sexual gratification
  • 225 And more

For YourselfIntroduction

1. Sex and Orgasm
2. Sources of Sexual Confusion
3. Where Are You Now?
4. The First Steps Toward Change
5. The Anatomy and Physiology of Female Sexuality
6. Psychological Aspects of Reaching Orgasm
7. Why Masturbation?
8. Exercises
9. Elaborating on What You've Learned
10. Rethinking Sexual Goals
11. Partners
12. Partner Exercises
13. Sexual Expansion
14. Sex and Pregnancy, Menopause, and Aging
15. Your Responsibility to Your Body
16. Bringing Up Children Sexually
17. Personal Liberation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Dr. Lonnie Barbach received her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical social psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She is currently in private practice in Mill Valley and San Francisco, California, and is the director of content for The Happy Couple Mobile Game App. Among her bestselling books on sex and relationships are For Yourself, Pleasures, The Pause, Seductions, The Erotic Edge, Erotic Interludes, and Going the Distance, which was co-authored with her partner, David Geisinger, Ph.D.  View titles by Lonnie Barbach

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For Yourself offers a step-by-step program developed by an acclaimed sex therapist with years of experience in the field. With an emphasis on clear, factual advice, simple, effective exercises, and a warm, reassuring tone, it helps women discover a new world of fulfillment - for themselves.

Includes:

  • 225 A detailed description of female sexual response
  • 225 Step-by-step exercises that will help gradually awaken dormant sexuality
  • 225 Explanations that dispel misunderstandings about sex and sexual response
  • 225 Insights into the essential role of mental and emotional attitude toward sexual gratification
  • 225 And more

Table of Contents

For YourselfIntroduction

1. Sex and Orgasm
2. Sources of Sexual Confusion
3. Where Are You Now?
4. The First Steps Toward Change
5. The Anatomy and Physiology of Female Sexuality
6. Psychological Aspects of Reaching Orgasm
7. Why Masturbation?
8. Exercises
9. Elaborating on What You've Learned
10. Rethinking Sexual Goals
11. Partners
12. Partner Exercises
13. Sexual Expansion
14. Sex and Pregnancy, Menopause, and Aging
15. Your Responsibility to Your Body
16. Bringing Up Children Sexually
17. Personal Liberation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Author

Dr. Lonnie Barbach received her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical social psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She is currently in private practice in Mill Valley and San Francisco, California, and is the director of content for The Happy Couple Mobile Game App. Among her bestselling books on sex and relationships are For Yourself, Pleasures, The Pause, Seductions, The Erotic Edge, Erotic Interludes, and Going the Distance, which was co-authored with her partner, David Geisinger, Ph.D.  View titles by Lonnie Barbach