Joe S. McIlhaney
Author of Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children
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Works by Joe S. McIlhaney
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- Gender
- male
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Places of residence
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Occupations
- gynecologist
physician - Short biography
- Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., M.D., is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist. In 2001, Dr. McIlhaney was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He also serves on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 1995, he left his private practice of 28 years to devote his full-time attention to working with the Medical Institute for Sexual Health, a nonprofit medical/educational research organization he established in 1992. As an innovator in the field of reproductive medicine, he introduced laparoscopy, gynecologic microsurgery and laser surgery to the Central Texas area. Along with three other physicians, Dr. McIlhaney was instrumental in bringing in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer to Austin, Texas.
Dr. McIlhaney has co-authored over six books including Hooked: The Brain Science on How Casual Sex Affects Human Development, and 1001 Health-Care Questions Women Ask.
Dr. McIlhaney resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Marion.
-from Moody Publishers
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Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting… by Joe S. McIlhaney Jr.
This book provides scientific evidence for how sex with multiple people effects our brains and our emotional/mental health. Some of the information I learned in my counseling classes but some were interesting to find out. The book can seem repetitive but I assume the authors did that on purpose because the more new information is repeated the more it sticks and stores into our long term memory. The authors talk about healthy sexual relationships being in the context of marriage, and they state that "it is rare for couple involved in a sexual relationship to maintain that relationship for life unless it is in the context of their being married." However, many people don't stay married for life. Lots of kids now come from divorced families, so just because a couple is married doesn't mean they will actually commit to each other for life. If a couple does get divorced and they each remarry someone else (statistically speaking) the chances of them getting divorced again is higher and if people keep getting married and divorced and then remarried again then their chances of a healthy sexual relationship diminishes as well. Scientifically speaking, it may be healthier for people to only have one sexual partner their entire lives, but being married to someone does not guarantee that person will have one sexual partner their whole life. In the book it seems like the authors are trying to say marriage is the key to a healthy sexual relationship and I think marriage is great, but like I said before it doesn't mean that couple will stay together for life. I think the key is truly making a commitment to one person for life and sticking to that commitment. Other than that I think the book had a lot of good and interesting information and would be a good read for everyone. We are all sexual beings, so it would benefit us all to learn how our brains respond to sex.… (more)
While the ideas outlined in this book are very interesting and more or less understandable, I wish the authors of the book spent less time trying to convince me of their ideas, and more time *showing* me the research which backs up their ideas.
I'll have to come back to the book and comb through the bibliography to better understand the underlying research.
So while I agree with their ideas on principle already, I'll need to make sure that it's scientifically sound research to be convinced that it *is* a *scientifically accurate* book.
Overall, an overly easy read.
I'd have preferred to have more detailed research.… (more)
I'll have to come back to the book and comb through the bibliography to better understand the underlying research.
So while I agree with their ideas on principle already, I'll need to make sure that it's scientifically sound research to be convinced that it *is* a *scientifically accurate* book.
Overall, an overly easy read.
I'd have preferred to have more detailed research.… (more)
This book blows the lid on popular myths about what passes for "safe" sex. It describes all the myriad dangerous and disgusting health issues created or exponentially exacerbated by casual sex with multiple partners in gory detail, "but if you only have sex with one committed partner, you don't have to worry about this."
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- Works
- 11
- Members
- 271
- Popularity
- #85,376
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 13