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The New Male Sexuality

By: Bernie Zilbergeld
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group (Trd)
ISBN: 0553082531
ISBN-13: 9780553082531
Released: 05 Dec 1992
RRP: £16.29
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Interesting Perspective - By: Simon May, 01 Jul 2004
I will keep this review short because there is so much that I could write about this book.

I found this book gave me some new insight, & would recommend it to anyone who aspires to being in a successful relationship.

Great on what he knows; weak on what he thinks - By: , 11 Aug 1999
This is a great book as long as the author stays in his field & deals with what he knows. It gets shaky when he strays into sociology & history where his knowledge is too superficial & obviously influenced by the spirit of the age. He depicts men as being sad, hollow creatures unable to connect with others in meaningful relationships & striving anxiously to perform up to others' expectations. He then spends most of the rest of the book telling us how to perform so we can live up to women's expectations & thereby enter in meaningful face-to-face as opposed to empty side-by-side relationships. It never seems to occur to him that men (and perhaps many women) may not want the degree of control & lack of privacy inherent in face-to-face relationships. Perhaps men are satisfied with a much lower level of intimacy. Like most psychiatric professionals, the author appears to think that the generallly unhappy people he meets in his practice are representative. He seems to have unconsciously adopted the patriarchal & now feminist attitude that everything that goes wrong for men is their own fault. All the problems in male/female relationships are male in origin. Men have to change (perform?). While finding this alll-too-familiar litany distressing, I found a great deal of useful information in this book about what the author clearly does know about: male sexuality. He seems to understand how & why we are the way we are sexuallly. The practical suggestions on how to solve functional problems could be very helpful.
sucky - By: , 21 Feb 1999
it blew a hole
Straightforward and useful compendium of ideas - By: , 14 Jul 1998
This book is unmatched in its straightforwardness, casual tone, & careful mix of do-at-home exercises & author's ideas. It is more sociological than most other sex advice books as well, providing the necessary social context for men's sexualities. "It's Two Feet Long & Hard as Steel" is a great chapter.