This lively and fascinating exploration of nymphomania as organic disease, psychological disorder, legal construct, and locker-room joke takes a look at the surprising, contradictory, and illuminating history of the subject over the last 200 years.

The New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief and Chameleon in a Candy Store is back with the spellbinding conclusion to the series. You’ve never seen romance do this before. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you’ll want to throw this book at the wall, but you’ll also want to know if it can possibly get any more disturbing (it can and it does). And as you start to wonder whether men and women were ever even meant to be together, a surprise ending brings the trilogy full circle and provides unexpected closure to an issue raised by a certain photographer's assistant in the first book. Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs is about how we love today and how increasingly we try to avoid it altogether.

Carly is a rich, uncontrollable brat. She might be a teenager but her promiscuity seems to know no bounds. Carly is a rich, uncontrollable brat. She might be a teenager but her promiscuity seems to know no bounds. She finally oversteps the mark when she takes up with her Stepmothers lover and its discovered. Now she must visit a psychoanalyst for evaluation and counselling, but Carly isn’t going down without a fight. The visits turn into a duel of sorts; Carly doing her best to shock or mislead her analyst in any way she can, whilst her sexual behaviour reaches into new areas in retaliation against her parents. No one is safe from her wanton designs.

Wealthy businessman and owner of Draper Estates, Ewan Draper needs a wife to give him the respectability demanded by polite Boston society. He’s drawn to the newest of his mill girls, the wild and passionate Lilliane, and arranges a hasty marriage. But when Lilly’s enjoyment of sex is diagnosed as nymphomania, an affliction that, it is claimed, will send her mad if left untreated, Ewan’s good friend, Dr Phillip Samms, devises a radical cure. A cure that only leaves Lilly wanting more …

How, then, can we recognize those who suffer from nymphomania? According to experts, women with such inclinations exhibit several characteristic features, due to which they can be recognized among other people...

Controversial for decades, now finally back in print, this classic 19th-century work on so-called sexual deviation is the pioneering collection of case studies that cataloged and defined perversion--from fetishism to incest to homosexuality and much more. Informative and entertaining, PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS is considered one of the most important documents in humankind's modern efforts to understand itself.

This book explains the hormone flow in women that change the way they see the world and the world sees them. It uses Nymphomania as an example.