Sublime

This book begins with an overview of our studies and will provide some background as to why we undertook them (Chapter 1).

Participant interviews were conducted over the telephone by both authors

With sincerest apologies to our fellow phenomenologists, we felt compelled to publish our observation that our research team members found men and women, the young and the old, vanilla and kinky participants indistinguishable (Kleinplatz,

In addition, we added one more group of participants, that is, sex therapists.

We generated a set of interview questions and then reviewed them with three sexologists prior to the commencement of interviews.

this book will be descriptive rather than prescriptive. We will be describing what we

3. Deep Sexual and Erotic Intimacy

We had an embarrassment of riches and interviewed more participants (a total of 75) than is common in other phenomenological studies to date in the literature.

“professional marriage”