Introduction: Listening to Women   ix

Part One: The ISIS Connection
    1. Broadening Our Vision of Sex   3
    2. The ISIS Survey Is Born   13
    3. Opening the Circle, Starting Your Journey   23
    4. The ISIS Wheel: Finding Your Path   30
    5. Skin Hunger and Other Sensual Appetites: Your Physical Journey   40
    6. Passionate and Compassionate Hearts: Your Emotional Journey   54
    7. Beliefs and Messages: Your Mental Journey   69
    8. Doors to the Universe: Your Spiritual Journey   80
    9. Ecstasy, Mystery, and Magic: Your Journey to the Center   93
    10. Is It Dysfunction or Is It Cosmic Sex? Mapping Yourself from Performance to ISIS   110
    11. Hardwired for ISIS: The Multidimensional Brain   121

Part Two: Paths to the Heart and Soul of Sex
    12. Walking the ISIS Wheel: Making Your Way to More Meaningful Sex   129
    13. Walking the ISIS Wheel with Your Partner: Creating Paths to Intimacy   134
    14. Your Chakras, Your Self   140
    15. Tantra: Weaving New Sexual Possibilities   148
    16. Creating Sexual Ceremony   155
    17. Elf and Waif: Updating Your Sexual History—With Love    162
    18. Desiderata: Your Rights to Intimacy and Pleasure    167
    19. Invoking Your Keeper of the Flame    171
    Epilogue: Making Peace with Our Bodies   179

Acknowledgments 183
Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality: A Survey   187
Extragenital Matrix   196
Resources   199
Suggested Readings   207
Credits   213
Index   215
About the Author   225