Human Sexuality category: 1501 books

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Getting Medieval

Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern

by Carolyn Dinshaw, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999

In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities—dissident and orthodox—in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry...
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The Empire of Love

Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

by Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal...
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The Sexual Revolution

Toward a Self-Regulating Character Structure

by Wilhelm Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

In this book, Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of the prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic medical experiences over a period of years. He demonstrates, by way of individual examples, the general basic traits of the conflicts in present-day sexual living,...
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Straight Sex

Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure

by Lynne Segal
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal’s account of twentyfive years of feminist thinking on sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, alongside the ensuing passionate debates over sex and love within...
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Ethical Porn for Dicks

A Man’s Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure

by David J. Ley
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016

Our media is filled with confusing, polarizing messages about the dangers of porn, while at the same time sexually explicit images are pronounced in advertising and entertainment. Using a natural question/answer format for people feeling fear and shame about porn use, this accessible, funny, and well-informed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009

Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors of this volume explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which women's...
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by Barnaby B. Barratt
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006

"Dr. Barratt is an intellectual giant and spiritual dedicate who advances tantric practice for westerners, even while debunking some of the myths that have accumulated around its popularization. This wonderful book is a lofty endeavor to make sense of the immeasurably deep and subtle truths that...
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The Sleep of Reason

Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics. The Sleep of Reason brings together an international group of philosophers,...
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The Sex Myth

The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality

by Rachel Hills
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial...
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Travesti

Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

by Don Kulick
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009

In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles,...
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Sexual Reflexology

Activating the Taoist Points of Love

by Mantak Chia, William U. Wei
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003

Moves reflexology beyond the realm of foot massage and into the realm of sexuality. • Offers acupressure methods to build intimacy and heighten sexual pleasure. • Helps couples find their sexual energy potential and physical compatibility. • Provides techniques to perform...
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by Jean-Nichol Dufour
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012

This is part 3 of a 10 books suite. Here I will describe how I see love and sexuality. It is a battle for true love.
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by Joseph Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013

If we expect teenagers to make good decisions about their sexual behavior then we have to let them know what the rules are for sexual behavior. This booklet explores the actual Code of Virginia Laws for sexual behavior in Virginia and helps teenagers examine how they will make decisions in their life...
Cover of The Snuggle Party Guidebook: Create Deeper Friendships, Decrease Loneliness, & Enjoy Nurturing Touch Community
by Dave Wheitner, Amy Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

2015 Indie Book Awards Finalist, Relationships.In just a few weeks, you can be hosting platonic touch-positive events, enjoying warmer friendships, creating a supportive tribe, and resonating with others on a deeper heartfelt level.Packed with knowledge of experts from a long-established...
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