Philippe Brenot

Informatiivinen, ainutlaatuinen ja viihdyttävä teos Tutustu tästä lukunäytteeseen Seksi on ollut ihmisten mielissä aina joko mielihyvän, vallan, koston tai lisääntymisen takia tai yksinkertaisesti siksi, että se ei ole ollut sallittua. Nykyisin seksi ympäröi meitä joka puolelta, mutta harvoin sitä selitetään tai opetetaan. Tässä kirjassa seksologi Phillippe Brenot yhdistää antropologiaa, sosiologiaa, psykologiaa ja historiaa tästä ihmisyyden olennaisesta aiheesta, ja tarinaa täydentää Laetitia Corynin nokkela kuvitus. Kirja on jaettu kronologisesti kuuteen osaan, kuten Babylon - vapaa rakkaus; Keskiaika - taivas ja helvetti sekä 1900-luku - seksuaalinen vapautuminen. Brenot tutkii, mitä eroottisuus todellisuudessa on, kuinka esi -isämme käyttäytyivät seksuaalisesti ensimmäisen parin perustamisen jälkeen, kuinka taikausko ja moraaliset lait ovat muovanneet seksuaalisuutta, miten pornografiaa käytetään digiaikakaudella ja kuinka jotkut muinaiset sivilisaatiot olivat paljon edellä aikaansa sukupuolten välisessä tasa-arvossa.

If the mythical "good savage" were to observe Western societies and their customs, he would be greatly surprised by the display of an obsession with sex. It would seem that the men and women of today have finally discovered sexual fulfI'ment. Sexology has been enhanced by fiedings in various disciplines - biology, ethology, medicine, psychology and psychoanalysis. Biological and cultural anthropology and even palaeoanthropology have been called upon to help us understand more fully the complexity of our desires and behaviour. This book offers a methodical approach to human sexuality from its origins to present-day issues, enabling readers to browse freely by theme or question. Each subject is clearly treated with explanations of recent scientific fiedings and a debunking of received ideas and other false explanations based on dogma or on so-called "natural laws". Aspects of erotic life examined here include: sexual maturity, sexual orientation, attachment, feelings, love, fidelity, puberty, the learning process, fulfilled adult sexuality, new practices, perversions and pornography. A central issue guides the authors: What is uniquely human? What can we learn from animal behaviour? Two authors, known for their originality, eminence and iedependence, bring together their complementary skills and reflections. They review current knowledge in science, medicine and the social sciences; when a new subject is introduced, an appraisal of existing knowledge and current controversies is provided. An appendix of sexual statistics synthesises the results of anthropological, sociological, medical and bI'metric studies; it is accompanied by a critical analysis of the major studies on sexuality and sexual liberation of the past thirty years. The author of the widely acclaimed Au commencement tait l'homme (2003) and Lucy et l'obscurantI'me (2007), Pascal Picq is a lecturer in the Chair of Palaeoanthropology and Prehistory at the Coll ge de France. His works include Les Tigres (2004) and Les Grands Singes (2005). The author of Les Violences ordinaires (2008) and Inventer le couple (2001), Philippe Brenot is a psychiatrist, couple therapist, director of sexology courses at the University of Paris-V, and the president of the Observatoire International du Couple. His works include Le Sexe et l'Amour (2003) and Le G nie et la Folie (2007).

Joan of Arc, Martin Luther and Rimbaud had hallucinations; Goethe, Balzac, Nerval and Schumann all suffered from manic-depression; Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and Cocteau were addicted to drugs; Gauguin, Van Gogh, Hemingway and Romain Gary were suicidal: the list is long of artists and creators who were inhabited by both genius and madness. Creative exaltation often borders on melancholy, on depression and on manias, as has been amply shown by the biographies and autobiographies of many artists. Philippe Brenot examines some of these extraordinary lives in which creative elation encounters dejection and even delirI'm. His surprising conclusion is that madness is not as common among musicians and visual artists as it is among writers, many of whom have suffered from psychiatric disorders. One of the most famous and perhaps the most representative is Fernando Pessoa who found solace by creating multiple personalities with different names. Brenot then asks the question: Do the highest forms of creativity necessarily lead to madness or the risk of madness? Do we admire genius in spite of its element of madness ? or because it is based on madness? Isn't the creative artist the person who dares to push to the outer limits of sanity and is willing to pay the price? By studying a number of artists from the Renaissance to our own time who have made major aesthetic breakthroughs in literature, painting and music, Brenot examines the nature of genius, how it functions, and its secrets and limits, and gives us a powerful insight into the workings of the mied. Philippe Brenot is a psychiatrist, sexologist and anthropologist, and the author of Le Sexe et l? Amour and Inventer le Couple.

For the majority of us, masturbation is the most widespread sexual practice, and for the majority of males, it is the first sexual experience of their lives. However, it remains the most unmovable taboo in Western morality. This book shows how this came about historically and how modern psychology has compounded the problem. If the book claims the audience it deserves, perhaps the world will change. The storm will pass; masturbation will henceforth become a right. It will be deemed lawful, good, agreeable, beautiful, convenient, simple, excellent, decent, meritable, useful, valuable, happy, frequent, habitual, ordinary, comprehensive, exciting, appetizing, attractive, captivating, recreative, interesting, stimulating, passionate and a tonic.

Secrets d'Amour is a novel of initiation to love, addressed exclusively to ten to thirteen-year-olds. A sort of modern-day "sentimental education", it provides answers to questions that are often asked by pre-adolescents, such as: What is it like to fall in love? What is a French kiss? What is making love? Why are boys and girls so different? This short novel is presented in the form of letters between Arthur and Chlo , two eighth-graders who have been in love since the first time they met. Confiding in each other in a secret exercise book, they discover life and love as they examine their differences and similarities, their doubts and anxieties, the first stirrings of passion, and their ideas about love and sex. At the end of the book, Dr. Philippe Brenot addresses some of the questions that pre-teens most frequently ask. The book's 45 letter-chapters, each only one or two pages long, present a wide range of intimate issues in a simple manner that is highly accessible to pre-teens. Philippe Brenot is a psychiatrist and couple therapist. He the author of many books on the body and sexuality, notably L? Education sexuelle (Presses Universitaires de France, 1994), Inventer le couple (Editions Odile Jacob, 2000) and Le Sexe et l? Amour (Editions Odile Jacob, 2001).