Human Sexuality category: 1501 books
In Your Face
9 Sexual Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, "in your face." While critics...
by Susanna Kaysen
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen’s cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic “vulvologist” has the cure. An alternative...
No Way Renee
The Second Half of My Notorious Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
In 1975, at the age of forty, Richard Raskind, a renowned eye surgeon and highly ranked amateur tennis player, "died," and Renée Richards was "born," in what was to become the most public and highly scrutinized sex reassignment to date. It was not until Renée Richards was discovered playing in an...
Body-to-Body Intimacy
Transformation Through Love, Sex, and Neurobiology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
This book presents an integrative, growth-oriented approach to therapy with couples that demonstrates the dynamic interplay between partners’ emotional issues and their sexual difficulties. It offers a model for relational and sexual enhancement that focuses as much on partners’ present, nonverbal...
Delicious Sex
A Book for Women and the Men Who Want to Love Them Better
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
“Hot.” – West Coast Review of Books
Revised for the 21st century, restaurant critic and novelist Gael Greene’s amusing and amazingly useful DELICIOUS SEX is finally available again after 15 years of underground traffic.
Have you lost that sexy edge? Does it seem that...
by Tina Kennington
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
ME - The Journey of a Transgender Person”
By Tina Kennington.
This story tells of Tina’s life as a transgender person. It is not written as an autobiography, but more as a series of recollections and thoughts that make up her journey, through life. Included are insights into...
by Hilda Hutcherson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In her ob-gyn practice, Dr. Hilda Hutcherson has seen women of all ages who have questions about sex. Now, in this down-to-earth book, she answers those questions and more as she addresses every sexual matter that has an impact on the lives of women.
Combining up-to-date medical science with...
by Barnaby B. Barratt PhD DHS
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
This book is about lovemaking as the supreme path of spiritual practice. Through its carefully crafted chapters, Barratt presents a profound and ancient insight. The essential flow of life is sexual, sensual, and spiritual. Consequently, our sexuality is not an obstacle to spiritual life. Rather,...
Healing Painful Sex
A Woman's Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Millions of women suffer from sexual and pelvic pain in America today, yet it is frequently misdiagnosed-or not diagnosed at all. Many women never seek treatment from this painful condition for fear they will be ignored or even disrespected. In Healing Sexual Pain, Deborah Coady, MD and Nancy Fish...
by Melisa Mae, Michael Masters
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
I think it is obvious to most women that men are sexually wired very, very differently. But how different and in what ways? Why don’t they like the post-coital cuddle or why do they always want to get into your backside? Why do they send dick pics or ask you for a threesome? Are they just stupid?...
Hung
A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Following in the footsteps of such bestselling, taboo-breaking books as Randall Kennedy’s Nigger and J. L. King’s On the Down Low**,** Hung brings a topic previously discussed only in intimate settings out into the open. In a brilliant, multilayered look at the pervasive belief that African American...
by Sha Rocco
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
"The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship" is an 1874 work by Hargreave Jennings, published under the pseudonym "Sha Rocco". Within it, Jennings presents a detailed treatise on the role of sexuality in ancient religions and religious practices, as well as the development of these ideas throughout...
Lesbian Lives
Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating a lesbian-specific psychology. Rather, they focus on a set of interrelated issues of far greater salience in our time: the...
Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities
Freud and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle...