Publisher's Synopsis
This is the third issue of the journal. It brings together a selection of papers which tackle sex and sexualities from a variety of perspectives - sexual abuse, gay and lesbian sexuality, transexuality, the sexually assertive heterosexual woman and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. The contributors in this issue focus on the psychologization of sexuality; this is not a new topic but it is a crucial one for critical psychologists, given the regulative role of psychological practices at present.;The book includes: Helen Keane on sex addiction; Sasho Lambevski on gay male desire; Paula Reavey and Sam Warner on women survivors of child sexual abuse; Peter Emerson and Stephen Frosh on sexually abusive boys; Katrina Roen on the interpretation of transexuality as being in the wrong body; Nicola Gavey and Marion Doherty on the sexually assertive heterosexual woman; Annie Potts on the place of orgasm in the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
