Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology
IMPRINTED SEXUAL FANTASIES:
A NEW KEY FOR SEXOLOGY
Facilitator:
James Park, existential philosopher
E-mail:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
Phone:
612-871-7275
Course description:
We will read and discuss a book of the same name:
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology.
ISF offers a new explanation of human sexuality:
Each person is imprinted with specific sex-scripts
or sexual fantasies during our first 20 years of life.
Our first sexual responses are created not by nature,
not by nurture, but by mental imprinting.
If this hypothesis proves substantially correct,
it could revolutionize modern sexology.
Is this seminar for you?
Ten teasers from the text might help you decide.
Eleven chapters will be discussed in 5 sessions:
Session 1:
I. INTRODUCING THE SEX-SCRIPT HYPOTHESIS
This chapter is available free of charge on the Internet:
See the table of contents.
Participants in this class should read these 16 pages
before the first session.
After we introduce the class and the participants,
we will discuss this first chapter.
Copies of the printed book will be available in class
for the wholesale price: $25.
Session 2:
II. THE EVOLUTIONARY BACKGROUND OF HUMAN SEX-SCRIPTS
III. SEXUAL IMPRINTING AT CRITICAL PERIODS IN PSYCHO-SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
Session 3:
IV. THREE LEVELS OF SEX-SCRIPTS
V. VARIETIES OF SEX-SCRIPTS
Session 4:
VI. IDENTIFYING OUR OWN SEX-SCRIPTS
VII. HOMOSEXUAL SEX-SCRIPTS
VIII. THE IMPACT OF SEXUAL FANTASIES ON OUR RELATIONSHIPS
IX. TRANSCENDING OUR SEX-SCRIPTS
Session 5:
X. FUTURE RESEARCH INTO HUMAN SEX-SCRIPTS
XI. SEX-SCRIPTS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Here is a comprehensive course description:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-SS.html
This URL allows you to open 50 pages from the book,
including the first page of each chapter.
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology
is a book of 176 pages offered in two bindings:
comb-binding and screw-post binding.
Same price for either binding: $25 wholesale. (Retail price: $55)
But you may sell the book back to the author
at the end of this seminar for $20 if it is not damaged.
Here are the details of this buy-back option:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SS-EXCO.html
Even if you do not want to attend this seminar,
you can still read some other books on sex-scripts.
More information about the facilitator:
James Park is an independent existential philosopher and reader of sexology.
The text for this seminar is his first book in sexology.
But he is preparing a second book,
which will be called:
Variations of Sex and Gender:
Six Phenomena Frequently Confused:
James Park has led about 200 discussion groups.
Most of these were in the Minnesota Free University.
Read more about his interest in adult education,
including other possible classes:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-AL-ED.html
The facilitator has written a short explanation of:
How I Wrote My First Book on Sex.
You might also want to read:
Skeptical Questions for Anyone Who Offers a Class on Sex.
CLASS TIMES:
To be arranged with everyone on the e-mailing list.
As listed above, we will have 5 meetings, 2 hours each.
There are three possible meeting times:
(1) week-day mornings
(2) week-day evenings
(3) Saturday or Sunday afternoon
If you really want to attend this seminar,
send your preferences to the facilitator,
whose e-mail is at the top.
CLASS DATES:
This seminar was originally planned for Fall 2009,
but we could not find a time that suited all of the serious participants.
So we have pushed back the starting date to sometime in 2010.
We will meet for five consecutive weeks,
arranged with those who have joined the e-mailing list for this class.
When the dates have been established,
they will be listed with the five sessions above.
Sorry for the delay in starting this seminar.
But the most serious students can begin reading now.
Several other books support the sex-script hypothesis.
You should be able to find
at least the most important of these in your favorite library.
PLACE:
The location will be in Minneapolis,
perhaps on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus,
possibly in Coffman Memorial Union.
CLASS SIZE:
10-20 people
Based on e-mail responses from the first people interested,
we will need more than 50 people on this list
in order to be able to gather about 15 people
at a particular time and place.
(revised December 5, 2009)
Sex-and-Gender Minorities explained by the Sex-Script Hypothesis?
This class (and the textbook) were not created
specifically for GLBT people,
but persons of every sex-and-gender minority
are welcome to join our discussions.
This includes all gay, lesbian,
bisexual, and transsexual persons.
Persons who find themselves with
bondage and discipline sexual fantasies,
no matter what their sexual orientations,
are also welcome.
Persons who are uncertain about
which sex to call themselves,
and persons who have any other
variations of sex and/or gender
are welcome to consider
whether the sex-script hypothesis
might help them to understand themselves better.
No matter what your sexual orientation
or sexual identity,
if you find yourself with imprinted sexual fantasies
that you did not choose
and which sometimes puzzle you,
the thesis of this book might
cast some light on what you are experiencing.
For example, would you call yourself a "sex addict"?
Do you have unusual sexual dreams?
You are invited to read those parts of the book
that you find most relevant and interesting.
Over 50 pages from Imprinted Sexual Fantasies
are available free of charge on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SS.html.
This seminar might be adapted specifically
for some special sexual minority.
Have a look at the text to see
if this new theory might be useful to your group.
And for people who have the most common sexual fantasies:
This seminar is also for you.
When we study the origins and dynamics of unusual sexual imprinting,
we also illuminate all varieties of imprinted sexual fantasies.
Let us be open to whatever sexual inclinations
and experiences the participants bring to this class.
Send your ideas or questions to me directly by e-mail:
James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
Yours,
James Park, existential philosopher and sexologist
