The book is an anthropological study of the Sambia people. The author is an anthropologist who worked together with a psychiatrist to try to analyze the erotic life in this culture where the idea of sexual identity is fluid. The experience of the boys is same-sex while the boys are raised separately from the girls. As adults the men are heterosexual and marry. The book tries to determine through interviews with certain individuals whether the situation is more complicated.

Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture

Self-Help

Herdt, Gilbert

STOLLER, ROBERT J.

Columbia University Press

Argues that most adult sexual behavior is influenced by childhood experiences, and looks at perversion, fetishes, obscenity, homosexuality, transvestism, and psychoanalytic treatment

Observing the Erotic Imagination

Yale Univ Pr

"Stoller is not just a scientist but a lover of words and language. In this book, his text is as playful, charming, and serious as his topic. The mix, a scientific and aesthetic exploration of the erotic imagination, is almost as irresistible as one's own erotic daydreams. Observing the Erotic Imagination is for all professional and private students of the erotic."—Dr. Ethel Person
"This book is a delight....He offers a model clinical illustration, brilliant and full of presence. Indeed, Stoller's entire book is a model of clear, elegant conversational prose."—Jerome B. Katz, M.D., Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
"Stoller presents new thoughts on his most provocative theory of the relationship between erotic excitement and fantasy of revenge and hostility."—Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D. and Evan J. Elkin, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
"Stoller's account is comprehensive and levelheaded."—Psychological Reports

Yale University Press

A psychiatrist and a screen-writer interview performers, writers, directors, producers, and technicians to reveal the technical aspects of making a porn video, the motivations and backgrounds of the people involved, and their view of the intended audience. They also discuss aesthetics, ethics, and etiquette. Not illustrated. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Bill, Merlin, Happy, and Kay are among the porn-film performers and producers who tell their stories to Dr. Robert J. Stoller in this pschyodynamic ethnography of adult heterosexual pornography. Their engrossing accounts reveal in rich detail not only the inner workings of “the Industry” and the fantasies and motivations of its participants but also the relation between this most denigrated of occupations and “normal” human erotic behavior and attitudes. 
Consistently nonjudgmental about the material he presents, Dr. Stoller nevertheless draws provocative conclusions about porn, its practitioners, and its effects on society. Everyone at work on a porn production, he says, uses it as a vehicle for unloading his or her rage against something―mores, institutions, laws, parents, females, or males. According to Dr. Stoller, pornography does not exist only to degrade women, there is no reliable evidence that it increases the frequency of rape, and (with the exception of child porn) it does little harm. Pornography, says Dr. Stoller, seems more the result of our changing society than a cause of change; it reflects, more than influences, our values and mores.

Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This classic book is a detailed case study of a woman, otherwise intelligent and apparently sane, who was convinced that she had internally a full set of functioning male sex organs. Dr. Robert Stoller's account of this woman's diagnosis and treatment is illustrated by excerpts from the patient-analyst dialogue during her therapy, providing enough detail to be useful to clinicians in training. Originally published in hardcover in 1973, the book is now available in paperback for the first time."One of the longest, most minutely detailed, and most fascinating case reports in the psychiatric literature. . . . An extremely original contribution to the study of perversion."―Ethel Spector Person, M.D., from the Foreword"One of the great clinical case studies. Splitting demonstrates the power of psychoanalytic reasoning in the twentieth century."―Gilbert Herdt, University of Chicago

Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity

What do porn films tell us about our own erotic impulses? What can we learn about our culture's sexual attitudes, fears, and fantasies from the ways that porn films are designed and produced? In this book, Dr. Robert J. Stoller, one of the world's leading experts on human sexual behavior, joins with I. S. Levine, a professional writer with long experience in X-rated video making, to examine the ideas and psychological makeup of the participants in an adult heterosexual X-rated video, Stairway to Paradise. Their interviews with performers, writers, directors, producers, and technicians provide extraordinary insights into the technical aspects of this type of video, the motivations and backgrounds of the people involved, and the porn industry's view of the video's intended audience. 
Stoller, Levine, and the porn filmmakers have wide-ranging discussions about the aesthetics, ethics, and etiquette of the porn industry; the hostility that Dr. Stoller claimed underlies all erotic excitement; the liberating—and educational—function of porn in a puritanical culture; the misconceptions of antiporn crusaders; the impact of aids on the participants; and the future of the porn film industry. The authors hope that if we understand how and why a pornographic work is created, we will be better able to understand the implications of the legal and moral issues it raises.

Humor & Entertainment

Levine, I. S.

Movies

A preeminent psychoanalyst explores the world of consensual S&amp;M. An expert on the dynamics of perversion and erotic excitement, Dr. Stoller sets out on an expedition to the S&amp;M community of West Hollywood. We meet the highly articulate Ron, who serves as a guide to the fetishes and bizarre practices of both casual and devoted proponents of sadomasochism. We are introduced to Marilyn and Claudelle, two warmly opinionated entrepreneurs of a B&amp;D (bondage and discipline) establishment. The arcane business of S&amp;M videos is documented by Merlin, and enthusiastic producer of pornography. Most interesting are Dr. Stoller's provocative questions to these denizens of the S&amp;M world and his engaging musings on their answers.Like an anthropologist in New Guinea, Dr. Stoller observes the customs of these natives. He studies them in his quest for insight into the perplexing question of why some people associate pain and humiliation with intense erotic desire. Thus, his journey is not only external, but internal—into the meaning and boundaries of the term perversion and its place within the psyche. He investigates how the theater of the imagination is moved into the real world's reverberating complexity. In the course of this journey, Dr. Stoller changes his views, first referring to these S&amp;M practitioners as specimens and then perceiving them, in their ambiguities and contradictions, as human beings. By joining Dr. Stoller, we find not only nuances in the meanings of consensual sadomasochism but larger implications of what being human means.

Pain And Passion: A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S & M

Plenum Press

Sweet Dreams: Erotic Plots

Mental Health

Routledge

This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity.

Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred

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Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture

Observing the Erotic Imagination

Observing the Erotic Imagination

Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video

Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century

Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity

Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video

Pain And Passion: A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S & M

Sweet Dreams: Erotic Plots

Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred