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PostPosted: 15 Feb 2008, 18:14 
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Great news, folks. My book The Love-Shy Survival Guide has been accepted for publication by autism/Asperger's/disability publisher Jessica Kingsley. I haven't finished the manuscript, and the book won't be coming out until early next year, but hopefully it will be a significant step to getting Love-Shyness on the psychology map.

I don't propose any Earth shattering love-shy breakthroughs, but I consider it quite complete. I have done a lot of reading on the subject and have found plenty of useful books. My webpage http://www.loveshyproject.com/recbooks.html has a list of almost 30 books I feel can be useful to love-shys in one way or another.

One interesting book I recently finished reading is The Politics of Lust by John Ince. He talks about erotophobia, a fear of things sexual. He only focuses on the sociological aspects of it; how fear and shame of sex and things sexual is an underlying phobia of our whole society. Love-shyness could be considered an acute version of erotophobia. However when I contacted Dr. Gilmartin about this book and its subject he dismissed it saying, "The root causes [of love-shyness] are genetic and biochemical/neuromorphological."

A great book I found for FEMALE love-shys is The Power of Sexual Surrender by Robinson. This book is from 1959, but seems to do an excellent job dealing with love-shyness through the subject of frigidity.

This may not help you guys in the short run. But keep your chin up and know that your condition will be getting publicized.

Good luck,
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PostPosted: 23 Mar 2011, 23:35 
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thanks for getting the book published.


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TalmerS wrote:
how fear and shame of sex and things sexual is an underlying phobia of our whole society

Then why do so many people just sleep around?

TalmerS wrote:
Love-shyness could be considered an acute version of erotophobia.

But asexuals can be LS too...

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However when I contacted Dr. Gilmartin about this book and its subject he dismissed it saying, "The root causes [of love-shyness] are genetic and biochemical/neuromorphological."

Ah, okay.

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This may not help you guys in the short run. But keep your chin up and know that your condition will be getting publicized.

Big congrats!!! I'll be checking out the site too. :clap:


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Uh guys....this post is three years old.

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Uh guys....this post is three years old.

dissention you grave robber :headsmack:


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lol i was in stealth mode, and i was like "wtf googles making a book? about things to search for?" :lol:

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The amazing thing about this old thread is that noone ever replied to it back in the day? Not much anticipation for Talmer's book I take it?

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I got a copy.

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The amazing thing about this old thread is that noone ever replied to it back in the day? Not much anticipation for Talmer's book I take it?


The book wasn't very good (though I acknowledge some disagree with me).

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It is in the Waterstones remainder bin, "any book for 10p"

Alongside books by Victoria Beckham, Jordan, the cast of The Hills


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Great news Talmer. I hope that you have that sense of pride that you put on the book within yourself. I have written an own book about LS issue as well. Though it was published and available only in Finland, for finnish. The quirky translation in english speaks: Bible Of Love.

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Great news Talmer. I hope that you have that sense of pride that you put on the book within yourself. I have written an own book about LS issue as well. Though it was published and available only in Finland, for finnish. The quirky translation in english speaks: Bible Of Love.


Haha, you got published? :rofl:

Omg, please, is there any info (in Finnish, I don't care) about your book? Judging by your posts here it is be a very, very interesting read.

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I remember fapping furiously to the thought of hot girls' thong strings when they walked up the stairs to class. I always tried to get behind them and tried to not get caught as I put my face really close to their ass and tried to smell really hard in hopes of catching some pussy smell. I was always tempted to enter the female bathrooms and steal all the thongs while they took a shower, but I was too afraid of what would happen if I got caught.


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I would apologize to the Jews, promise to relocate them to Israel, and ask them to help me develop the atomic bomb to be used to wipe out America.




http://robertpervisbc.blogspot.com/2012 ... -from.html
http://robertpervisbcwatch.blogspot.com/


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It seems my library has 5 copies!
lol ...and they're all available.

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