Friction and Fantasy: Opening Pandora's Jar, divided into seven chapters titled - What is Sex Anyway?, Ruminations on Sex and Love, Anatomy of Sex, Our Sexual Theater, Erotic Preference and Gender Diversity, Our Disturbing Sexual Corridors, and Sexual Discontent and its Origins, blends scientific and historical perspectives with literary commentaries, as it explores the complexities of human sexuality - our sexual fantasies, sexual anatomy, love, sexual desire and arousal, orgasm in females and males, the controversies regarding erotic preference and gender diversity, unusual sexual practices, sexual violence (rape and child sexual abuse), and the dilemmas of sexual discontent. Friction and Fantasy offers in a stimulating and thought-provoking manner a wealth of information not easily available to the general reader.