The Perv in Us All
When it comes to what we like between the sheets, everyone's unique.
Despite modern society's comparatively tolerant attitudes toward sex, many of us still don't know much about our own sexual perversions, let alone what turns others on. Jesse Bering's Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (Scientific American/FSG) aims to rectify that. It's not just a fascinating overview of human paraphilias and the biology involved in our feelings of attraction and revulsion. It also addresses how significantly our attitudes toward such preferences and behaviors have changed.
Whether you would like to know more about the diversity of sexual palates or the politics and science that mold our understanding of sex, no one can finish Perv without a better understanding that when it comes to what we like between the sheets, everyone's unique.
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That’s one hot chick on the cover.
Hubba, hubba!
… Hubbit
Somebody (Warty) would hit it.
Or a certain lawyer…
I’m here!
You are all engaging in special pleading, but I won’t cite specific examples because I’m not willing to make a genuine argument!
But anyway, I just thought I’d announce I was here, in the pervert thread!
So hey!
You wanna know what I think? I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
Shit! They’re onto us!
Cheese it!
What a shock.
Soon Pedo-bot will appear.
Shut up, you sick fuck.
Shut up, you sick fuck.
Butthurt that I rained on your Cruz fellatio parade?
In order to be a deviant, one has to deviate from some average/baseline/whatever. When everyone is a deviant, then no one is.
That wasn’t my point: I wondered what constitutes a “sexual deviant” when — supposedly — there’s a “sexual deviant in all of us”.
For example there’s anal sex: is that deviant? Is it deviant between males? Is it deviant if one is on the receiving end? If one performs it?
I’m guessing that’s the point of the book. There’s this thing called “normal”… which nobody is.
If that’s the case, then the selection of the title and subtitle is marketing-driven, instead of reflecting on the central thesis of the book.
Which is entirely possible: titles (and subtitles) are selected by the publisher in order to help sales.
Missionary-style sex within the confines of marriage?
You rate yourself a 6, huh?
Okay, 8.
I don’t know about this ‘no deviance’ idea.
Example =
Furries
http://www.vanityfair.com/cult…..ries200103
Ok. Weird? yes. More power to ’em.
versus
Crush films
http://www.darwinawards.com/da…..99-57.html
NOT OK. I don’t care who the fuck you are. Jesus.
Call me old school if i think some shit is just “degenerate”
I disagree. Furries are the most degenerate of the degenerate. They should be killed on site by the Gestapo.
Fapping to people getting their organs ripped out through their anus is perfectly fine though.
See, but your opinion means nothing because you are disgusting degenerate human filth who must have had some kind of horrible childhood and really should be in therapy, preferably high-voltage.
My comment was directed at the NORMALS. We still exist!
sight… not site… damnit… I need an editor.
There’s no single, measurable scale of “sexual deviance”: and even if there was, it isn’t necessary that the distribution of it would be a normal distribution (informally known as a bell curve).
When you say furries are “weird”, you say that they’re deviant from some ‘average’.
I’m not talking about the ethics or morality of various sexual practices: I’m questioning the basis of labeling something ‘deviant’, especially when — supposedly — there’s a “sexual deviant in all of us”.
Okay. But Woody Allen is still a bigger perv.
He does have “Woody” in his name.
Does the Allen mean his woody is the size of an Allen wrench?
He gets excited at Ikea?
With a 90 degree bend.
Is that a sheep on the cover?
Indeed. I used to play a videogame in the early ’00s where one had to do as many sheep as one could — without being caught by the shepherd. It was a fun game with hilarious graphics.
Got a little sexual deviant in you?
Want one?
Why do homosexual paedophiles love to go to the dentist?
They get excited when they hear: “now you’ll feel a little prick …”
Your dick looks so big in their little hands.
Note: yeah I only know the punch line to a pedophile joke.
“diversity of sexual palates”
I’m sure that’s a required course in some liberal arts program somewhere.
This is strangely therapeutic.
(If he gets stuck, you can move him with your mouse)
Automatically racist.
I’m sure at least one commenter here will get aroused by that.
Warty?
I may be banned from commenting at work now so this is a TEST.
Hmmm….
sexual palates or the
Mary, why are you so sad?
I’m shocked, shocked! that you would think THAT’S who I meant. I was talking about Pro-L, of course. 😉