Safe Encounters: How Women Can Say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex

Beverly Whipple, Gina Ogden

Pocket Books, Jul 1, 1990 - Health & Fitness - 240 pages

Here at last is a responsible and realistic approach to safe sex, offering the vital information and creative guidance to romantic lovemaking that is at the heart of safe sex--and answering the questions that worry so many women about sexually transmitted diseases.

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In conversational style Whipple, co-author of The G Spot , and Ogden describe what women can do to protect themselves from AIDS. They begin by teaching women how to understand their sexual feelings ...

Contents

• Part One Saying Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe: 3
• The Right Relationship Is a Safe Relationship: 19
• Options Other: 43

About the author

Barry R. Komisaruk is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University. Carlos Beyer-Flores is head of the Laboratorio Tlaxcala in Mexico. Beverly Whipple is Professor Emerita at the College of Nursing, Rutgers University.

Gina Ogden, PhD, has had a distinguished career as a marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, teacher, researcher, and author. She is an associate professor of sexology at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She leads workshops around the country and has been a featured guest on numerous radio and television programs including Oprah. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Safe Encounters: How Women Can Say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex
• Authors: Beverly Whipple, Gina Ogden
• Editor: Sally Peters
• Contributor: Gina Ogden
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Pocket Books, 1990
• ISBN: 0671689134, 9780671689131
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / General; Psychology / General; Safe sex in AIDS prevention; Safe sex in AIDS prevention/ United States; Sex instruction for women; Sex instruction for women/ United States; Women; Women/ United States/ Sexual behavior