Sex in the Forbidden Zone

by Peter Rutter

"Courageous, compassionate and insightful. While focusing on the pain and disillusionment of the victims, he examines the complex dynamics of betrayer and betrayed with understanding and humility."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
This provocative, insightful book, based on the authors' years of experience and over 1,000 in-depth interviews helps victims of professor, physician or psychiatrist seduction, the private fantasy worlds of powerful men ; the unspoken emotional needs of women; effective strategies for women to help them reinforce the bounadaries against invasion, and much more.
Selected by the Literary Guild, Doubleday, and Psychotherapy Book Clubs


From the Paperback edition.

Genres: Psychology, Sexuality, Gender, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Keith]

This book is very clear that sexual relations between a woman and a man in a position of power can be especially damaging to her.

I read this book sometime in the 1990's.

[Anastasia MacKenzie]

A lot of sweeping generalizations that lack nuance.