The cosmo report : female sexual behavior / Linda Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Linda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual disorders--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Sexual disorders.

Sexual disorders--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Distribution, 2014.

Summary:

The largest-ever sexual survey of American women Bigger by far than the Kinsey Report or any other sexual study of American women, the Cosmo Report is a landmark work about female behavior. The report is based on the responses of more than one hundred thousand readers of Cosmopolitan magazine to a questionnaire about their sexual habits and preferences. But what makes the book more than a mere set of statistics-however revealing-is that many of the respondents augmented their replies with highly personal letters detailing the sexual practices they engaged in, the ones they most enjoyed, the on

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Cosmo Sex Survey; Part One: Sexuality with Partners; Chapter One: The First Time; 1. Someday He'll Come Along, the Man I Love; 2. How Old Were You?; 3. Who Was the First Man?; 4. Why Did You Decide to Have Sex for the First Time?; 5. Was It Emotionally Satisfying?; 6. Was It Sexually Satisfying?; 7. Remembering the First Time; 8. Waiting for the First Time; 9. Effects of the First Time on Future Sexual Happiness; Chapter Two: Turn-Ons; 1. He's in the Mood for Sex (She Isn't); 2. Favorite Turn-Ons

3. Drinks and Drugs as Turn-Ons4. Turn-Ons and Aggression; Chapter Three: The Whens, Wheres and How-Oftens of Sex; 1. The Uses and Abuses of Sexual Measuring Scales; 2. Sexual Frequencies: How Often Do You Make Love?; 3. Sexual Expectations: How Much Sex Is Enough?; 4. When Is the Best Time for Sex?; 5. Lunch-Hour Sex; 6. Where Are the Best Places for Sex?; Chapter Four: Sexual Practices; 1. The Expansion of Sexual Repertoires; 2. Foreplay; 3. Oral Sex; 4. Coital Sex: Attitudes; 5. Coital Sex: Positions; 6. Anal Sex; 7. Homosexual Sex; 8. Sadomasochistic Sex

Chapter Five: Orgasm with a Partner1. Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally; 2. What Is an Orgasm, Anyway?; 3. How Frequent Are Orgasms?; 4. How Are Your Orgasms Usually Achieved?; 5. The Factors That Affect Orgasm; 6. Sex Without Orgasm; 7. The Pressure to Have Orgasms; 8. Faking Orgasms; 9. Do Orgasms Vary in Intensity?; 10. Multiple Orgasms; 11. Learning to Have Orgasms; Part Two: Private Sexuality; Chapter Six: Masturbation; 1. The Changing View of Masturbation; 2. How Widespread Is Masturbation?; 3. How Old Were You When You First Masturbated?; 4. Frequency of Masturbation

5. Techniques of Masturbation6. Vibrators; 7. Do You Continue to Masturbate When You Have a SteadySex Partner?; 8. Masturbation in View of a Sex Partner; Chapter Seven: Sexual Fantasies and Dreams; 1. The Mystery of Sexual Reverie; 2. The Prevalence of Sexual Fantasies and Dreams; 3. When Do You Have Sexual Fantasies?; 4. Who Do You Fantasize About?; 5. What Do You Fantasize About?; Part Three: The Human Arithmetic of Sex; Chapter Eight: Lovers; 1. The Pleasures and Perils of Change; 2. How Many Lovers Have You Had?; 3. What Is It Like to Feel Free to Have as Many Lovers asOne Pleases?

4. Sexual Etiquette: How Quickly Do You Go to Bed?5. Sexual Etiquette: Have You Ever Gone to Bed withOne Lover, and Then Another, in the Same Twenty-Four-Hour Period?; Chapter Nine: Multiple Partners; 1. The Spread of Group Sex; 2. The Frequency of Group Sex; 3. Threesomes: One Woman/Two Men; 4. Threesomes: Two Women/One Man; 5. Sex Clubs, Orgies and Partner-Swapping Parties; Chapter Ten: Infidelity; 1. The Rise in Women's Infidelity; 2. Marital Infidelity; 3. The Mechanics of Marital Infidelity; 4. Motivations and Expectations; 5. Secret vs. Open Infidelity

6. Fidelity Among Couples Who Live Together

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 08, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4976-8102-2

OCLC:

898103581