Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence Contributor(s): Khan, Shahla (Author) |
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ISBN: 1502419939 ISBN-13: 9781502419934 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sexual Abuse & Harassment |
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.28 lbs) 116 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Friends With Benefits is a crash course in adult sex education that unifies humankind against gender based violence. Loneliness is an epidemic. Over 40% of adults suffer from loneliness in their lifetime - young adults being particularly vulnerable - and research shows that direct loneliness impacts our physical health as much as cigarette addiction In Friends With Benefits, Shahla Khan, an expert in the prevention of gender-based violence, shows how loneliness can also make you vulnerable to violent, gender-based crimes, either as a victim, or as an offender. Shahla demonstrates how friends, particularly those of the opposite sex, can help manage your well-being, provide tough love, and act as an always-available personal therapist.. Too many books spend too much time dishing out the Mars-Venus philosophy - finding the differences between men and women, and relying on harmful pop psychology. The fact is that men and women are both from Earth, and learning to see a human as a friend removes invisible barriers that have been drawn by this defeatist self-help literature. Friends With Benefits will teach you: How to find and be a better friend Staying away from isolation-related habits How to think outside the gender box, seeing yourself and others as humans Dating and mating without sexual double standards Joining the social movement in gender-based violence prevention Shahla Khan presents all this and more, in a smart new way; Friends With Benefits shows you how to beat loneliness, make friends, date healthy, and end rape. |