What is Love-Shyness?


    This book is interested in a particular kind of shyness which prevails in coeducational
or man/woman situations wherein there is no purpose apart from pure, unadulterated 
friendliness and sociability.  This type of shyness can best be termed "love-shyness", and 
it is the most painful and life-crippling of all kinds of shyness.  Just as shyness in 
purely sociable situations is far more painful than shyness in impersonal business or 
performance situations, shyness vis-à-vis the opposite sex for virtually all of its victims
is far more painful than any other kind of shyness.  According to the best evidence at our 
disposal, love-shyness has a more disastrous impact upon the lives of its victims that any
other kind of shyness. And that is why this book will confine its attention exclusively to 
love-shyness, its causes consequences, and remedies(both preventative and therapeutic).