The Pursuit of Pleasure
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The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex, food, drugs, pets, plants, power and more - and explores their variations now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. He tackles a variety of complex and larger issues, such as the historic link between religion, public policy and the control of pleasure and the fact that some pleasures reflect our hunter-gatherer pasts - for example, the way we still respond to the warmth, physical and psychological, of a fire. But he also looks at the lighter side of pleasure and what it means, from a taste for barbecue to the sensual enjoyment of a kiss.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0316845434
ISBN13:9780316845434
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Little Brown and Company
Length:330 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"
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