Discovering Human Sexuality

by Simon LeVay, Janice Baldwin, John Baldwin

This alternative version of LeVay and Baldwin's acclaimed text Human Sexuality is more accessible to students with a limited background in biology, but maintains the evidence-based approach and readability of the original. The language and terminology throughout are more comprehensible, making it suitable for interdisciplinary study.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Sexuality

645 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2009

About the author

Dr. Simon LeVay is a writer and lecturer with a background in neuroscience. He is best known for his research on the brain and sexuality, but has also spent many years studying the visual system. He has written or co-authored several books on sexuality, and coauthored books on such diverse topics as earthquakes and volcanoes, extraterrestrial life, and Parkinson's disease. He has even written a novel. Dr. Simon LeVay lives in West Hollywood, California.

Reviews

[Alireza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Suffice it to say this is THE only textbook that I have read inside-out beginning-to-end with such a devotion throughout my academic career.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was an interesting read and one of the better ones I have read cause it more LGBT and modern era sexuality freedom based.

[Nathan Potthoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some chapters were more interesting than others/more informative than others, but overall... good stuff.

[Ogi Ogas · Rating 5 out of 5]

My ratings of books on Goodreads are solely a crude ranking of their utility to me, and not an evaluation of literary merit, entertainment value, social importance, humor, insightfulness, scientific accuracy, creative vigor, suspensefulness of plot, depth of characters, vitality of theme, excitement of climax, satisfaction of ending, or any other combination of dimensions of value which we are expected to boil down through some fabulous alchemy into a single digit.

[Crystal ✬ Lost in Storyland · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely biased view towards a "modern" view of sexuality. More to come.

[Jeffrey Bumiller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for a Psychology of Human Sexuality class. I enjoyed it enough to read the chapters that were not covered in the class just to finish the whole book.