Not quite “presto” of course. In fact, the distance separating an author’s hazy ideas for a book and getting that book into a shape that people would want to read is incredibly vast. It’s so vast, in fact, that anyone who’d take on such a project as an editor would have to be crazier than the author. Luckily, I found such a mental state in Amanda Moon at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, who has served with grace, patience, and good humor as my editor on this and other projects over the years. Sometimes I can get a bit lost in my writing, and in the spirit of the flow I’ll make a few insensitive missteps here and there—okay, “missteps” is putting it too mildly, more like the type of stumbling over sentences that can break a reader’s bone. Amanda understands me well enough by now to know what it is I really meant to say, not that dreadfulness of a line I’ve just vomited onto the page without considering how people could misinterpret it. In other words, it’s because of Amanda that this book isn’t as offensive as it would otherwise have been, and whatever you did find offensive in it would have been inordinately more so if not for her.
I was all the more fortunate to have benefited from the talent and knowledge of Amanda’s editorial assistant at FSG, Christopher Richards, who took on the role—and courageously so—of a second editor on this project. Chris had a major part in the making of Perv, pushing me to try harder at my weaker moments and consistently offering the level of feedback and quality of insight of an editor far beyond his years. Closer to the production end, the editorial assistant Daniel Gerstle was also instrumental in briging this project to fruition, patiently handling my many questions and emails with remarkable aplomb. For their diligence, keen eyes, and attention to detail, I would like to thank my copy editor, Ingrid Sterner, as well as my production editor, Lenni Wolff. Kathy Daneman, my publicist at FSG, is a force to be reckoned with who has worked tirelessly behind the scenes for me on all my deviant projects. I’m grateful to have her.
I’m also grateful to the very kind Robert Allen and his staff at Macmillan Audio for their work on the audiobook version of Perv, as well as Doug Young and Madeline Toy at Transworld Publishers in the United Kingdom. The hardworking folks at Scientific American, particularly Mariette DiChristina and Bora Zivkovic, have been hugely supportive and encouraging of my writing on human sexuality from the get-go. And I’d like to extend my appreciation to the helpful staff at the Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections at Indiana University for permitting me access to their archived material.
For those in my life who for so long have had to endure my tales of sexual deviance—at dinner parties, at family reunions, and during transatlantic flights—I sincerely apologize. But I really did appreciate your generous listening. I’d like to thank my dad and stepmother; also, my sister and brother and their respective mates, and along with them my nieces and nephews, who one day will come across this book and realize why their parents always seemed to avoid their questions about what Uncle Jesse did for a living.
To Juan, my accommodating partner whose ears have sighed for so long from hearing me read aloud to him bedtime stories he’d rather not go to bed knowing and into whose loving arms I’ve crawled each night, wounded by the sex lives of strangers, I swear I’ll never write another word about sex. Well, I promise a breather, anyway.
Finally, I am grateful to the many supportive friends and colleagues who’ve read and commented on early versions of this material, who answered my clueless questions about their fascinating research, or who simply offered patience and an encouraging word or two when I needed it along the way. These include (in no particular order): Synnove Heggoy, Ira Berliner, Jayne Roth, Laurie Santos, Ray Blanchard, Mike Seto, James Cantor, Todd Shackelford, Christopher Ryan, Karen Franklin, Sean Massey, Roy Baumeister, Meredith Chivers, Dave Bjorklund, Derren Brown, Anne Lawrence, David Buss, Ben Hale, Michael Bailey, David Pizzaro, Becky Fortgang, Dan Savage, Patti Virgadamo, Erin O’Donnell, Rita Marker, Martin Kafka, Steve and Sonni Roth, Cyndi and Jesper Sjögren, Symone and Maxx Carroll, Daniel Engber, Laura Helmuth, Ginger and Brent Geiger, Alex Lakeman, Eileen Curtayne and Srini Dixit, Caroline Clark Rivera, Michèle Roten Baumgartner, Ericka L’Abbe, Alondra and Yeri Quiles, and Justin Nolan. Thank you.
INDEX
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abortion
abused/abuser cycle effect
acrotomophilia
actirasty
Adams, Henry
addiction, sex
Africa
agalmatophilia
age; age-of-consent laws; chronological vs. biological; erotic age orientation; gerontophilia; hebephilia; of menarche
Aka people
Albert, Marv
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
amputee fetishists
anal fisting
anal sex; disgust
anasteemaphilia
animals; homosexuality; -human sex; masturbation; paraphilias in
apotemnophiles
Apulius, Lucius, The Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Aquinas, Thomas
Ariely, Dan
arousal, sex differences in
asexuality
Asperger’s syndrome
atheism
Australia
autism
autogynephilia
Bailey, J. Michael; The Man Who Would Be Queen
Baird, Brian
Baker Brown, Isaac
baldness
Ball, Hadrian
Bataille, Georges, Story of the Eye
Baudelaire, Charles
Baumeister, Roy
Bauserman, Robert
Bergersen, Sidney
bestiality, see zoophilia
Bhugra, Dinesh
biastophilia
Bible
Bienville, D. T.
bigotry
birth control
bisexuality
Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne
Blanchard, Ray; autogynephilia theory; Narratives Slides Test; Walking Nudes Test
Blanton, Hart
Block, A. J.
blood, menstrual
Bloom, Paul
Blount, Thomas; Glossographia
Boethius; Consolation of Philosophy
Bolivia
Bonanno, George
Bono, Chaz
boot fetish
brain; development; gender differences; hypersexuality; paraphilia; pedophilia; theory of mind
Brandes, Bernd Jürgen
Brazil
breast milk
breasts
buggery
Canada
cannibalism
Cantor, James
Caroline Islands
Carter, Angela, “The Bloody Chamber”
Casanova
castration
casual sex; disgust
Catholic Church; sex abuse scandals
Centerwell, Brandon
Charles II, King of England
chasmophilia
Chaucer, Geoffrey
childbirth
children; age-of-consent laws; female maturation; foot fetishism; male maturation; origins of sexual deviance in; parental attitudes to private parts of; porn; predicting homosexuality in; semen-ingestion ritual; sex with; subjectivity
Chile
chimpanzees; homosexuality
China
Chivers, Meredith
chromosomes
circumcision
climacophilia
clitoridectomies
clitoris; large; surgical mutilation of
colonial America
condoms
Congress
conversion therapy
Cooper, Anderson
coprophilia
courtship disorder
/> covert sensitization
crime
cross-dressing
cunnilingus
Cupid
Cyrus, Miley
Czech Republic
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard; The God Delusion
Dawson, Samantha
death
decontamination
Denmark
depression
deviant sexuality; childhood origins of; disgust; erotic age orientation; harm; homosexual; hypersexuality; naturalistic fallacy; paraphilias; subjectivity; taxonomy of; theory of mind; see also specific types of deviant sexuality
de Waal, Frans
Dewaraja, Ratnin
diabetes
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
Diamond, Milton
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Emily
disease; hypersexuality; sexually transmitted
disgust, sexual; anal sex; decontamination; differences in sensitivity; foot fetishism; heterosexuality; homosexuality; local anesthetic hypothesis; odors and secretions; symbolic
DNA
Douglas, Lord Alfred
Down syndrome
drag kings
drag queens
eating disorders
Egypt
Eiffel, Erika
ejaculation
Eklöf, Eija-Riitta
elderly, attraction to
Ellis, Albert; Nymphomania
Ellis, Havelock; on foot fetishism; Sexual Inversion
Enlightenment
ephebophilia
epilepsy
erection; plethysmography
erotic age orientation
“erotic love map” theory
erotic plasticity
eugenics
Evans, Edward Payson, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
evolution
exhibitionism
family
feces; gay men
female-to-male (FTM) transsexuals
Féré, Charles Samson; Scientific and Esoteric Studies in Sexual Degeneration in Mankind and in Animals
Ferron, Jacques
Fessler, Daniel
fetishism; see also specific fetishes
Finland
food; aversion; penis as; semen in
foot fetishism
formicophilia
Foucault, Michel; The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
France
Frank, Barney
Franklin, Karen
Freud, Sigmund
Freund, Kurt; plethysmography
frotteurism
Gaddam, Sai
gay rights
gay sex, see homosexuality
gender dysphoria
Genet, Jean, The Balcony
genetics
genital warts
Germany
gerontophilia
Gerrard, Meg
GG-rubbing
Giannini, James
Gide, André
Gikuyu people
Glasser, Mervin
gonorrhea
Granger, Thomas
Gray, Kurt
Great Britain
Greece; ancient
Green, Richard
Greer, Germaine; The Beautiful Boy
Groneman, Carol
Gutheil, Emil
Haidt, Jonathan
Hall, G. Stanley
Hamilton, Allan McLane, “Civil Responsibility of Sexual Perverts,”
hand fetish
harassment, sexual
harm, sexual; decontamination; morality; pedophilia; sadism; self-harm; subjective
hebephilia; homosexual
Henson, Bill
Herdt, Gilbert
hermaphroditism
herpes
heterosexuality; disgust
Hewlett, Barry and Bonnie
Higginson, Reverend Francis
Hindus
HIV/AIDS
Hogbin, Ian
Hogg, Thomas
homelessness
homophobia
homosexuality; animal; APA classification of; as behavior; boot fetish; conversion therapy; “cure” for; detection of; as deviant; disgust; Féré stereotypes; foot fetish; gender differences; hebephilia; incestuous; as “inversion”; law; lesbian “mummy-baby” relationships; medicalization of; monkey-testicle cure; morality; naturalistic fallacy; nymphomania; as orientation; predicting in children; as psychosexual condition; stereotypes; teenage; transsexual
Hopi Indians
hormones
Hudson, Rock
Hunt, Nancy, Mirror Image
hypersexuality; brain; diagnosis; disease; female; male; medicalization of; moralism; nymphomania; satyriasis; terminology
impotence
imprinting, sexual
Inbar, Yoel
incest; homosexual; smell
Indonesia
Industrial Revolution
infertility
Inquisition
intergenerational sexuality
International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)
Internet
interspecies sex
IQ
Ireland
Islam
James, E. L., Fifty Shades
Japan
Jethá, Cacilda, Sex at Dawn
Jews
John/Joan case
Jones, Ernest
Jong, Peter de
Jureidini, Jon
Kaf ka, Martin
Kahr, Brett, Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?
Kalyanam, Ram
Kama Sutra
kathoeys
katoptronophilia
Kegel exercises
Kellogg, John Harvey
King, Michael
Kinsey, Alfred; Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; Sexual Behavior in the Human Male; TSO concept
Klaf, Franklin; Satyriasis
Klüver-Bucy syndrome
Korea
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von; Psychopathia Sexualis
law; age-of-consent; bestiality; homosexuality; rape
Lawrence, Anne, Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies
Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterley’s Lover
left-handedness
Leibovitz, Annie
lesbian sex. See homosexuality
Lesotho
Levin, Roy
LGBT label
libido; hypersexual
lithophilia
local anesthetic hypothesis
Loewenstein, George
London
Louis XIII, King of France
love
Lucy (chimp)
Lydston, G. Frank
madness from the womb
male-pattern baldness
male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals
Maletzky, Barry
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
Mapplethorpe, Robert
Marañón, Gregorio
marriage; equality; gay
Marsh, Amy
masochism
Massie, Henry
masturbation; animal; female; formicophilic; male; teenage
media
medicalization; of female lust; of homosexuality; of hypersexuality; of male lust
Meiwes, Armin
men; average number of orgasms; baldness; casual sex; disgust; Féré’s stereotypes about gay men; gay sex and disgust; hypersexual; imprinting; masturbation; medicalization of male lust; odors and fluids; paraphiliacs; pedophiles; sadists; satyriasis; sex differences in arousal; transsexual
menarche, age of
menopause
menstruation; age of menarche; blood
mental illness
MHC alleles
Michelangelo
Middle Ages
Miller, Henry, Tropic of Cancer
Miller, Terry
mind, theory of
“min
or-attracted adults”
Mishima, Yukio, Confessions of a Mask
misogyny; medical
Modern Family (TV show)
Money, John; “erotic love map” theory
monogamy
“moral dumbfounding”
morality; cleansing effect; harm; homosexuality; hypersexuality
Mori, Ogai, Vita Sexualis
Moser, Charles
Mosher, Donald
multiple sclerosis
mummy-baby relationships
mundungus
murder
Myers, Wayne
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita
NAMBLA
Napoleon Bonaparte
naturalistic fallacy
natural selection
Navarrete, David
Nazism
Neanderthals
necrophilia
Neuilly, Melanie-Angela
neuroscience
New Guinea
New Haven, Connecticut
New York City
New York Times
normal sexuality; average number of orgasms
Noyes, William
nudity
nymphomania; homosexual; terminology
obesity
objectophilia (objectum sexuals)
object personification synesthesia
Oedipal complex
Ogas, Ogi
O’Grady, Kevin
oral sex
orgasm; average number of; delayed; multiple
orientation; erotic age; homosexuality as; paraphilia; subjectivity; transsexuality
ovulation
Paidika
pain; sadism
paralagnia
paranoia
paraphilias; acrotomophiles; childhood origins of; erotic age orientation; “erotic love map” theory; female; fetishism; gender differences; male; orientation; pedophilia; preparatory behaviors; sadism; study of; subjectivity; taxonomy of; terminology; transsexual; unusual erotic targets; Zeigarnik effect
parental investment theory
Paris
partialism
pedophilia; female; hands-off offenses; hands-on offenses; left-handedness; male; mental illness; orientation; plethysmography; predicting in children; Rind data; short stature; terminology; “true”
Pedophilia
penis; circumcision; as food; odors and fluids; photos; plethysmograph; severed; size; Tanner Scale
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