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Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing
Ecco
February 2009
On Sale: January 27, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0060885564
EAN: 9780060885564
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
How do we come to be who we are sexually? How do we cope with the forces of desire? How can we understand the relationship between the
transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love
and the anarchy of the erotic? Daniel Bergner looks for answers in the stories of four
people whose longings are very different from our own: a
devoted husband burdened by an insatiable foot fetish, a
clothing designer who finds ecstasy in the pain of others,
a man smitten with his young stepdaughter, and an
advertising director who casts traditionally beautiful
models but who is attracted only to amputees. Bergner finds
in their desires metaphors for the issues that confront us
all and raises fascinating questions about the erotic
differences between men and women and the nature of ecstasy
itself: Are some people actually experiencing more ecstasy
than the rest of us? In speaking to experts in the fields of psychology and
neurology, and by threading the personal stories of several
modern-day Kinseys throughout his riveting case studies,
Bergner has written a provocative, profoundly insightful,
and brilliantly illuminating book about the most
fundamental of human needs.
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