For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality

by Lonnie Garfield Barbach

Overview

An excellent, reassuring book for women and their partners. It carries the woman along step-by-step in the rediscovery of her own sexuality and the pleasure it will bring her. Liberated or not, single or married, young or old, all women will find this book accessible and supportive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451166814
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/1976
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	4.24(w) x 6.84(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Lonnie Garfield Barbach received her MA and her PhD in clinical social psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She is now on the clinical faculty of the University of California Medical School in San Francisco and also has a private practice. Among her several bestselling books on sex and relationships are For Each Other, Pleasures, The Erotic Edge, The Pause, and Going the Distance, as well as her book with her partner, David Geisinger, PhD. They live in Mill Valley, California, with their daughter, Tess.

Table of Contents

For Yourself Introduction

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