Carnal Critiques: Promiscuity, Politics, Imagination, Spirituality and Hypocrisy

摘要

The author explains the political, psychological and ethical reasons for writing about promiscuity. His previous work on what is‘more-than personal’embrace politics and spirituality in the context of psychotherapy. He sets this inquiry in the historica context of the fortieth anniversary of the‘sexual revolution' of the 1960s, reviewing crit, tally the debate as to whether there was or was not a revolution. The manifold connection between sexual promiscuity and political critique are explored. This sets the scene for th location of promiscuous phenomena within a spiritual or transpersonal domain. Promis cuities (in the plural) rather than monolithic promiscuity are surveyed in terms of sex an sexual diversity. Promiscuity is reviewed in terms of imaginative process. Finally, th hypocritical attitudes towards promiscuity on the part of many (but not all) psychothera pists are explored with the intention of discovering the reasons for this phenomenot Copyright _ 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.