Sexual Happiness for Men by Maurice Yaffé & Elizabeth Fenwick

Sexual Happiness for Men (Illustrated Third Edition Practical Sex Guide)

An Illustrated Clinical-Psychology Guide to Male Sexuality, Revised with Guidance on Safer Sex and HIV

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Sexual Happiness for Men: A Practical Approach
• Authors: Maurice Yaffé & Elizabeth Fenwick
• Editor: Raymond C. Rosen ; John M. Kellett
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, London ; New York ; Stuttgart
• Publication Date: 1992
• ISBN-13: 9780863185526
• ISBN-10: 0863185525
• Edition Details: Third Edition, Dorling Kindersley, 1992. Edited by Raymond C. Rosen and John M. Kellett.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated perfect-bound card wrappers, printed in blue and cream, with a blue spine lettered in white.
• Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback), roughly 235 x 190 mm, 160 pages. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs, with questionnaires and charts.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: The blue and cream illustrated card covers are clean and bright. The spine is straight and intact. There is a slight bump to the top fore-edge corner. The page block edges are tanned.
• Interior: The pages have tanned to cream, with some toning along the text block edges. The text is clean in the pages checked and the binding is tight. No markings are visible.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Sexual Happiness for Men: A Practical Approach is an illustrated self-help guide to male sexuality and sexual fulfilment. It was written by a clinical psychologist and a health and sex-education writer. This is the revised Third Edition, published by Dorling Kindersley in 1992.

The book works by encouraging self-diagnosis through specially devised charts and questionnaires, alongside illustrated programmes for building confidence and understanding a man's own sexual needs. It covers common fears and worries, difficulties in both long- and short-term relationships, medical problems, choices of contraception and variations in sexual orientation. The revised edition adds guidance on safer sex, AIDS and HIV.

A review in the Journal of the American Medical Association judged that the authors had tackled and accomplished a worthwhile and difficult task. The book is a useful period document of how sexual health and therapy were presented to a general readership in the early 1990s.

Author Profile: Maurice Yaffé and Elizabeth Fenwick

Maurice Yaffé (1944/45 to 1989) was a British psychologist who served as Principal Clinical Psychologist at Guy's Hospital. He studied the psychology of sex and fear of flying, and sat on the British Olympic Association's medical advisory committee. His other works include The Influence of Pornography on Behaviour (1982) and Take the Fear Out of Flying.

Elizabeth Fenwick is also the author of The Complete Johnson & Johnson Book of Mother and Baby Care and co-author of Sexual Happiness for Women.