Perv  (English, Hardcover, Bering Jesse)

The surprising science of sexual deviance

Perv is an evolutionarily informed psychological analysis of humanity's weird and wonderfully tense relationship with its own sexuality.

Humans have grappled with troubling aspects of their wanton lust from the earliest recorded times. Jesse Bering here goes where few scientists have gone before and confronts the most taboo issues of human sexuality head on.

Why is the concept of sexual deviance so easily conflated with immorality and disgust? Is perversion culturally relative or are the same behaviours regarded as wrong in all societies?

What are the developmental origins of sexual deviations and perversions? Are sexual deviants born or made?

Fascinating, controversial and yet deeply entertaining, Perv is the kind of book that you will never forget reading.

About the Author
Jesse Bering PhD, is a frequent contributor to Scientific American and Slate. His writing has also appeared in New York magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, among other publications, and has been featured by NPR, Playboy Radio, the BBC, and more. The author of The God Instinct, Bering is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University, Belfast, and began his career as a professor at the University of Arkansas. He lives in Ithaca, New York.