Sons, Lovers, and Fathers: Understanding Male Sexuality

Rating:
Summary: Male sexuality: decent and dignity restored
Review: Dumas has written a masterful accounting-- introduction, explanation--of male sexuality, and he has done so creatively with understanding, respect, compassion and moments of sheer brilliance. Here is but one creative example: The head of the penis is coverede with muscosal tissue. (Mucosa covers internal surfaces and is naturally moist, the glans is dry only for circumcised men.) Has anyone else had the genius to recognize the penis is an antomical device that makes possible the bringing together of two internal surfaces, the comingling of the insides of two people? This simple observation, based soley on anatomic fact, opens up sex to be a mutually exposing, mutually vulnerable, mutually generous act. The book is full of gems like this.

The book is highly readable and accessible--so much so the translators' early copies kept disappearing, stolen by people who wanted the book. Dumas is French.

Of course, not everyone will agree with all of his observations and opinions. There are always people itching for a fight, and those with agendas of their own (sexist, political or otherwise) will not be happy--sadly, they seldom are.

Dignity, fun, respect, play--the book is a rare, deeply understanding work, and it brings achingly, howlingly absent elucidation to what is far too often vastly unappreciated and misunderstood: male sexuality.

Rating:
Summary: Male sexuality: decent and dignity restored
Review: Dumas has written a masterful accounting-- introduction, explanation--of male sexuality, and he has done so creatively with understanding, respect, compassion and moments of sheer brilliance. Here is but one creative example: The head of the penis is coverede with muscosal tissue. (Mucosa covers internal surfaces and is naturally moist, the glans is dry only for circumcised men.) Has anyone else had the genius to recognize the penis is an antomical device that makes possible the bringing together of two internal surfaces, the comingling of the insides of two people? This simple observation, based soley on anatomic fact, opens up sex to be a mutually exposing, mutually vulnerable, mutually generous act. The book is full of gems like this.

The book is highly readable and accessible--so much so the translators' early copies kept disappearing, stolen by people who wanted the book. Dumas is French.

Of course, not everyone will agree with all of his observations and opinions. There are always people itching for a fight, and those with agendas of their own (sexist, political or otherwise) will not be happy--sadly, they seldom are.

Dignity, fun, respect, play--the book is a rare, deeply understanding work, and it brings achingly, howlingly absent elucidation to what is far too often vastly unappreciated and misunderstood: male sexuality.