Vladimir Antonov
Sexology
Infant Sexuality — Origin of Homosexuality and Other Pathologies — Regulation of Sexual Function — Bioenergetic Aspects of Sex — Ethics, Religion, and Sex
Translated from Russian by Maxim Shafeyev
ISBN 5-94261-009-6
© Antonov V.V., 2002.
This book contains a scientific description of mechanisms and regularities of the development of the reproduction system of human beings, including embryonic period, childhood and adolescence.
It also contains a thorough description of mechanisms of forming of homosexuality of both sexes, using results of relevant experiments on animals as a scientific basis.
The author describes methods of reproductive function regulation: from choosing an appropriate diet — to methods of psychic self-regulation, including work with chakras and meridians.
A significant part of the book is dedicated to bioenergetic aspect of sexual interaction, sexual psychology and ethics, from religious positions, in particular. The author substantiates a call to view sexuality as an opportunity of spiritual growth trough correct development of one’s emotional sphere, refinement of consciousness and ethic self-control.
At the end of the book there is an comprehensive bibliography.
The book is intended for both specialists in sexology and general audience.
A negative impact of sexual disorder on the emotional state and social activity of a person is well-known.
Problems of this kind are very widespread. In the adolescent age the leading role among them play strong attraction to masturbation that is confronted by moral taboos. Later sexual dissatisfaction or, vice versa, exhaustion from forced sexual intercourses can come to the fore. Significant number of people also suffer from congenital or acquired sexual anomalies. Still more people suffer from functional disorders of reproductive system such as impotency and quick ejaculation in men and anorgasmia in women (in those cases when it is the cause of disease-like states).
For many centuries sexological research has not been conducted in European countries due to impact of Judaistic religious dogmata (which were adopted by many Christian churches in its nearly unchanged form), thus many problems have been being resolved on the basis of the Old Testament “law”.
First serious works on this subject started to be written in Europe only in the end of the 19th century [27,33-34,46-48,51,53-54,58-60,69].
In the middle of the 20th century significant progress in this field of knowledge was achieved thanks to studies of a group of American scientists who were headed by A.Kinsey [90-91].
In the following decades a series of experiments on animals were conducted in the field of sexual neurophysiology [57,78,96-97] and sexological aspects of social psychology [2,26,70,85-86].
Among Russian sexological studies of that time I would distinguish works of A.M.Svyadosch [64-65] as those worth a special attention.
In the book that your now reading I have gathered material accumulated for years of my work in the Sexological Center of the Experimental Medicine Research Institute, that was headed by A.M.Svyadosch, as well as in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Institute and during subsequent years when I totally switched to studying and popularization of the art of psychic self-regulation and methods of spiritual self-perfection.
