In the Grip of Basic Instinct

How to make anyone you want fall in love with you? What do normal people fantasize about in erotic fantasies? Why do men go to prostitutes? Love, sex, sex-business. This all-consuming Bermuda triangle attracts and repels at the same time. How tempting it is to learn its deepest secrets—and how dangerous it is to do so alone! But what if together?

After all, the richest life experience of one person is only a drop in the sea compared to the experience of several hundred people.

Many of the revelations in this book may seem too bold to readers—and sometimes even shocking. But the desire to call things by their real names and to speak openly about the forbidden isn’t sensationalism here—it’s simply a characteristic feature of the psychological, medical, and journalistic approach to serious problems.

Everything most intimate should become knowledge accessible to all.

That’s what the book’s authors—psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and sexologist Igor Vagin, and co-author journalist Antonina Glushchay—believe. You hold a book that has no analogues in domestic psychological literature dedicated to interpersonal relationships.

First, because it’s written in co-authorship by a professional psychotherapist-sexologist and a journalist. All stories are taken from real life—reality in intimate matters is brighter than any invented plot. Second, because it analyzes in detail the most complicated moments of relationships between men and women and offers practical advice and ways to solve acute problems.

And finally, because it’s written by a woman and a man. That means it’s free of a one-sided view. You’ll be able to look into two mirrors at once, and each will tell you the truth.

Happily, there are two paths: one is difficult and tangled, the other is true and simple. Which one do you choose? If the second, then this book is for you.

This book is a modernized and expanded edition of "The Basic Instinct."