Jack Morin Ph.D. - Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide for Men, Women and Couples

Absolutely indispensible. I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Dan Savage, syndicated columnist, "Savage Love"

Anal Pleasure and Health is iconic in our field. The subtitle should be: "The 2010 Handbook for the Anally Curious." With meticulous style, Morin delivers a sex therapist's guided tour for self or partnered pleasure that is part research, part techniques, part exercises, and a refreshingly positive attitude. - Lou Paget, AASECT Certified Sex Educator and author, The Great Lover Pla by ook

Jack Morin's revolutionary guidebook for the elimination of anal pain offers simple exercises such as inserting a finger in your anus every time you take a shower. The practical wisdom of Anal Pleasure and Health helped me evolve from a disembodied academic into a sensuous teacher of anal massage. Joseph Kramer, Ph.D., somatic sexologist

I wish my doctors had read this book. The "Anal Health" part of the title is no joke. From my late teens I was plagued with stabbing cramps, bleeding, and messier symptoms-doctors cited stress, irritable bowel syndrome, and had nothing to recommend but yet more fiber. In a matter of short weeks, the relaxation and muscle control exercises in this book cut down the pain I'd suffered for years. - Amazon reader review

This classic makes a taboo subject routine. It's a great reference and I recommend it often. - Charles Moser, MD. author, Health Care Without Shame

Detailed and thorough... irreverent and elegant. David Smith, founder, HaightAshbury Free Clinics

Recently, the medical community has shifted its attention to whole body medicine. But according to a doctor we found, there's one body hole that's been left behind. Sex therapist Dr. Jack Morin has written a groundbreaking book that shows us how to become buddies with our buttholes. - Beth Littleford, y Dail Show The on Comedy Central

I have to say that this book revolutionized my love life between me and my man. I had been plagued with questions about "how" and "where," and this book answered EVERY one, in addition to suggesting many things I had not previously thought of. Kudos to Jack Morin. You have truly changed my life for the better. - Amazon reader review

Unlike some writers, Morin spends as much time focusing on using fingers, tongues and toys as he does on intercourse, and he emphasizes becoming comfortable with your body and finding out what (if any) forms of anal stimulation you enjoy, rather than making yourself feel inadequate for failing to meet external "goals." Amazon reader review

An excellent piece of work on an important subject. Wardell Pomeroy, Ph.D., co-author of the Kinsey Beports

I must admit, as I sat down to write this review, I had to fight the urge to adopt a condescending, flippant tone. This is an important work, however, about a strong social taboo... Even the most enlightened health professional would have trouble finding sound information, let alone knowing how to help patients incorporate their anuses into their sexual lives safely and pleasurably. Dr. Morin has had the courage and imagination to do this, and present his expertise for others to use. Stephen Atkinson, Body The Politic

More than a book about anal pleasure; it is a book about relationships, touching, sensuality and letting go of patterns that have kept us from getting as much out of sex as we deserve. Wendell Rickets, ofHomosexuality Journal

JACK MORIN, PH.D.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY COLLEN HAMMON-HOGAN, TOM TILL

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Anal Awareness &Relaxation Workshops

AIDS Crashes the Party

Going Mainstream?

Whats New In This Fourth Edition?

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Prevalence in the United States

Social Functions of the Anal Taboo

The Anal Taboo in the Helping Professions

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The Anal Opening

Experience ea' Response

Personifying the Anus

... 37

Anatomy ofAnal and Pelvic Muscles

Visualizing Pelvic Organs

Experience & Response

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Stress and Anal Tension

Experience I & Response

Experience II & Response

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Anatomy and Physiology of the Anal Canal

Anal Douching (Enemas)

Lubrication

Experience & Response

Sexual Response and the Anus

Experience & Response

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Fisting (Handballing)

Introduction to Butt Plugs

Experience & Response

... 101

Feces

Homophobia

Gender Roles

Missing the Taboo

Drugs and Anal Pleasure

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Choosing a Partner

Experience & Response

The Nice Person Syndrome

Rimming (Analingus)

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What Is Anal Intercourse?

Condom Sense: Which Type Is Best for You?

Experience & Response

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Symbols Of Power

Eroticizing Power

Power and Anal Intercourse

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Staying In Touch

Who When and How

Aging and Anal Pleasure

Honoring Erotic Preferences

HIV and AIDS

Making Safer Sex Work: Developing a Personal Policy

Other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STDs)

Intestinal Infections

Other Diseases of the Anus and Rectum

Guidelines for Self-Healing

Finding A Physician or Alternative Practitioner

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It's hard to imagine a book that's not a collaborative effort, especially when you're violating a still-powerful taboo, even more so when a book has been part of your life for nearly thirty years, as this one has for me, with this fourth edition being the latest version. My collaborators have been many and varied, beginning with the hundreds of clients who, through their intimate revelations and courageous experiments, have grown personally, while enriching me at least as much. You know who you are; please accept my deepest gratitude.

Early support means an enormous amount when getting a project off the ground. Many of my oldest friends created an environment in which I could afford to be a little wacky-I prefer to think of it as inspired. Michael Graves, Liz Hudgin, Toni Ayres, and Tom Moon gave me encouragement and much-needed laughs. Phillip Mitchell was my professional mentor during the mid-seventies and helped me zero in on what I wanted to do, and how I could possibly do it. This book grew out of my doctoral research at Saybrook University where Don Polkinghorn was not only the new presidente, but was also thrust into the position of chairman of my doctoral committee; some guys have all the luck. But without a hint of discomfort-and always with genuine respect-he pushed me to make the research better.