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Stoller prefaces this group of essays with the statement that this book is "part of an ongoing project on gender identity—masculinity and femininity—and a related subject, erotic excitement." His studies of gender identity problems in children led Stoller to study perversions and in time brought him to "understand the dynamics of anyone's erotic excitement, primarily its nonsomatic roots" (p. vii).
This book is divided into two sections. In the first section, "Dynamics of Erotic Behavior," are included the essays: "Perversion