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Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering – review;
The Guardian,
Feb 12 2014
Quotes from a review by Steven Poole, in The Guardian, 12 Februari 2014.
"We cannot choose who we are sexually attracted to – so stop judging."
... In a friendly way, Bering, a former psychologist, argues that all sexual "perversions" or "deviancies" should be viewed objectively as just statistically more-or-less common structures of desire, without the moral disapproval that usually attaches to them. ...
He becomes more serious during the last third of the book, which is about paedophilia and child pornography. ...
Despite its wild variations in tone, this is, overall, a serious and humane book.
Quotes from a review by Steven Poole, in The Guardian, 12 Februari 2014.
"We cannot choose who we are sexually attracted to – so stop judging."
... In a friendly way, Bering, a former psychologist, argues that all sexual "perversions" or "deviancies" should be viewed objectively as just statistically more-or-less common structures of desire, without the moral disapproval that usually attaches to them. ...
He becomes more serious during the last third of the book, which is about paedophilia and child pornography. ...
Despite its wild variations in tone, this is, overall, a serious and humane book.
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Pedophiles, Hebephiles and Ephebophiles ...,
Jul 01 2009
In this column presented by Scientific American Mind magazine, research psychologist Jesse Bering of Queen's University Belfast ponders some of the more obscure aspects of everyday human behavior. Ever wonder why yawning is contagious, why we point with our index fingers instead of our thumbs or whether being breastfed as an infant influences your sexual preferences as an adult? Get a closer look at the latest data as "bering in Mind" tackles these and other quirky questions about human nature.
"Michael Jackson probably wasn’t a pedophile — at least, not in the strict, biological sense of the word. It’s a morally loaded term, pedophile, that has become synonymous with the very basest of evils. (...) But according to sex researchers, it’s also a grossly misused term."
In this column presented by Scientific American Mind magazine, research psychologist Jesse Bering of Queen's University Belfast ponders some of the more obscure aspects of everyday human behavior. Ever wonder why yawning is contagious, why we point with our index fingers instead of our thumbs or whether being breastfed as an infant influences your sexual preferences as an adult? Get a closer look at the latest data as "bering in Mind" tackles these and other quirky questions about human nature.
"Michael Jackson probably wasn’t a pedophile — at least, not in the strict, biological sense of the word. It’s a morally loaded term, pedophile, that has become synonymous with the very basest of evils. (...) But according to sex researchers, it’s also a grossly misused term."