For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality

by Lonnie Garfield Barbach

Overview

Rediscover your sex life and create more pleasure than you thought possible with the help of this reassuring guide.

An excellent book for women and their partners, For Yourself will carry you along step-by-step in the rediscovery of your own sexuality and the pleasure it will bring you. Single or married, young or old, all women will find this book accessible and supportive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385112451
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/30/1975
Edition description:	Rev and Updated ed.
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	365,449
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.96(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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

	Introduction	ix
1.	Sex and Orgasm	1
2.	Sources of Sexual Confusion	19
3.	Where Are You Now?	35
4.	The First Steps Toward Change	43
5.	The Anatomy and Physiology of Female Sexuality	54
6.	Psychological Aspects of Reaching Orgasm	81
7.	Why Masturbation?	98
8.	Exercises	107
9.	Elaborating on What You've Learned	129
10.	Rethinking Sexual Goals	136
11.	Partners	145
12.	Partner Exercises	157
13.	Sexual Expansion	180
14.	Sex and Pregnancy, Menopause, and Aging	187
15.	Your Responsibility to Your Body	196
16.	Bringing Up Children Sexually	204
17.	Personal Liberation	214
	Notes	218
	Bibliography	225
	Index	233