Women's Sexualities: Generations of Women Share Intimate Sexual Secrets of Sexual Self-acceptance Book

Using the striking results of a survey that she conducted with Dr. Bernie Zilbergeld, author of New Male Sexuality, sex educator and therapist Carol Ellison helps readers uderstand and refine their own sexuality. For the survey, in-depth interviews with 100 women aged 23-90 were used to develop a questionnaire that was ultimately completed by 2,632 women. Such a large sample helped Dr. Ellison find patterns and isolate conditions that lead women to positive sexual growth. In Women's Sexualities, Ellison covers the factors that influence sexual development, such as body awareness, sexual attitudes and values, and early lessons about love, sexuality, and sexual boundaries. Her exploration of women's experiences of erotic pleasure in adulthood covers: solo sex, the components of orgasm, acquiring mutual pleasure in a heterosexual or homosexual relationship, and achieving self-acceptance. A woman's sexuality involves not only what she does in bed, but her motivation, the meaning that she and her partner attach to certain sexual behaviors, whether she is satisfied by the sex that she has, and a myriad of other physical, relational, and spiritual factors. At the heart of Ellison's method for achieving sexual self-acceptance is the idea of the SEXSA Circle, or Sexual Self-Acceptance Circle. Find out how to form your own SEXSA Circle and begin your personal journey toward sexual self-acceptance.Read More