Curtis R. Bergstrand, Jennifer Blevins Sinski

Swinging in America (eBook, ePUB)

Love, Sex, and Marriage in the 21st Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on an extensive survey of real people and over 40 years of research, this revealing volume proposes that a nonmonogamous lifestyle may be healthier for marriages than a monogamous one.

Based on an exhaustive survey into the lives of real people, Swinging in America: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the 21st Century concludes that nonmonogamous relationships such as swinging and polyamory offer a new blueprint for combining sex and love-one that may prove more in line with the way people actually live their lives in our society.

Swinging in America begins with what we know about swingers and the swinging lifestyle, based on personal narratives and over 40 years of sociological research comparing swinging and non-swinging couples on factors such as personal happiness, marital satisfaction, psychological stability, and personal values. The second half of the book explores the historical rise and contemporary decline of monocentrism-the sexually monogamous marriage as the organizing principle underlying our culture-and the implications of this decline for new nonmonogamous relationships and marriages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216152088
• Artikelnr.: 70037312

Autorenporträt

Curtis Bergstrand, PhD, is associate professor and program director of the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Anthropology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

Jennifer Blevins Sinski MAT, MA was a principle researcher in a 2000 national survey of swingers in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Swinging in America: The New Monogamy? 1. What Is
Swinging? 2. Who Are Swingers? 3. Entering the Lifestyle 4. Personal
Effects of Swinging 5. Effects on Marriage Part II: The Rise and Decline of
Monocentrism 6. The Social Construction of Monogamy: The Religious and
Economic Narrative 7. The Legal Narrative: Monogamy and the Moral
Architecture of the Law 8. Psychological Science and the Therapeutic
Narrative 9. Sexuality and Monocentrism: The Heretical Narratives 10. The
Social Consequences of Monocentrism 11. Toward a Nonmonocentric Narrative
of Love, Sex, and Marriage Conclusion: Is Nonmonogamy for You? Notes Index