Introduction; Chapter 1 Physiology and Fantasy; Chapter 2 Sexuality at the Edge of the Abyss; Chapter 3 Erotic Sainthood and the Search for Self-Annihilation; Chapter 4 Two Sexual Lives, Entrepreneurial and Compulsive; Chapter 5 Sexuality and the Life Force; Chapter 6 Sexuality and Self-Fulfillment; Chapter 7 Performative Sex and the Values of a Consumerist Culture; Chapter 8 Conclusion;