Human Sexuality category: 1501 books
by Jonathan Margolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“Margolis devotes himself to the social history of the ways and means of orgasm . . . And his breezy, sophisticated writing doesn’t hurt, either” (Booklist).
Orgasm is one of society’s most compelling, shaping forces—and most of us probably think that we are living in its golden age....
Different Loving
A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
“A detailed, eye-opening account of the real sexual underground in America . . . a thorough and serious study.”—Playboy
From *Different Loving:
In order to understand unusual sexualities such as dominance and submission, one first has to consider the question ‘What is normal?‘...
by Dieter Duhm, Sabine Lichtenfels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Eros of the sexes is the messenger of an endless cosmic and earthly joy. Sexual energy is pure life energy, and wherever sex and love come together, we find what all people long for more than anything else: an embodiment of ecstasy, bliss, a zest for life and the power of action. Sometimes I can...
Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Humanism Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.”
After giving the world three distinct works on humanism, one of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers Abhijit Naskar rises with his fourth humanizing work of egalitarianism, in the “Humanism Series”....
The Kinsey Institute
The First Seventy Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
An in-depth history of Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking Institute for Sex Research and the cultural awakening it inspired in America—“it has no rival” (Angus McLaren).
While teaching a course on Marriage and Family at Indiana University, biologist Alfred Kinsey noticed a surprising dearth...
Slow Sex
The Path to Fulfilling and Sustainable Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
A revolutionary practice for couples to enhance sexuality and reach higher states of consciousness
• How to make sex a conscious decision, not an accidental encounter
• Discusses how slowness increases sensitivity and awakens the body’s innate mechanism for ecstasy
• Reveals...
Size Matters
The Hard Facts About Male Sexuality That Every Woman Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A man’s anatomy is a lot easier to understand than his mind, and knowing what’s going on down there is just as important to a happy relationship as figuring out the deeper meaning of his every word. You can analyze your relationship with your girlfriends, but who can you turn to with the more...
The Science/Fiction of Sex
Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located,...
Asexualities
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume,...
Sexuality and Sex Therapy
A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Sexuality and Sex Therapy
The Misfit of the Family
Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand...
Sexual Awareness
Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In the newest edition of this classic text, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy explain how desire, pleasure, and satisfaction can enrich your relationship. As the premier book on the subject, Sexual Awareness focuses on factors that promote and subvert healthy couple sexuality. Reading this...
The Changing Dynamics of Bisexual Men's Lives
Social Research Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This important book provides unique new knowledge on the lived experience of openly bisexual men without medicalizing or pathologizing them. Presenting research from sexology, sociology, and psychology, it features extensive findings on the sexual, social, romantic, and emotional behaviors of the...
Many Splendored Things
Thinking Sex and Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Exploring sex—bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections—in terms of play and playfulness.
We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their...