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The aim of this book, the fruit of a labor of 20 years, is to explain human sexual experiences as “essential and germane to true psychosocial health.” Khan feels one “should be able to comprehend what in Walt Whitman's verse are:
love, phallic thumb of love, breastsarms and hands oflove, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breastsof love, bellies, press'd and gluedtogether with love.
He does much to help us toward that goal.
His thesis is that “alienation from the self is the chief personal predicament in the pervert.” In support, he offers a comprehensive