An estimated twenty million American men and women are in relationships in which the man has stopped being sexually intimate. Is the problem physical, emotional, or psychological--or are these guys simply bored with their partners?

To find answers, bestselling author and relationship expert Dr. Bob Berkowitz and his wife, Susan Yager-Berkowitz, began an unprecedented survey of more than four thousand men and women in this situation, gathering data and following up with hundreds of interviews with selected respondents. "Why Men Stop Having Sex" provides a unique window into the sexless man's mind--so that men and women can understand this important issue and begin to address the problems that have inhibited intimacy, and ultimately solve them.

You can overcome lust and sexual sin Overcoming Lust is written for you if you are struggling with sexual sin or are helping others who are struggling. It includes: Ten chapters that will help you understand lust and how to gain victory over it. Ten additional chapters that will show you what the Bible teaches about lust. Helpful discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Many real life examples and stories to learn from. If you diligently apply the truths found in Overcoming Lust, you will gain victory over lust and begin living in a way that pleases God. Visit Overcoming-Lust.com for information about the author, blog posts, book endorsements and additional resources for overcoming lust.

Relationship expert Regena Thomashauer teaches the lost "womanly arts" of identifying your desires, having fun no matter where you are, knowing sensual pleasure, befriending your inner bitch, flirting (in a way that makes your day, not just his), and more -- because making pleasure your priority can actually help you reach your goals. So if you need a refresher course in fun -- and you know you do -- come to Mama.

* Have your partner give you a romantic massage with this special blend of oils. * Learn which plants have aphrodisiac qualities. * Create alluring perfumes, gels, creams, and balms, and soak in silken bath oils. * See how fresh flowers, vaporizers, diffusers, candles, and potpourris can bring about an atmosphere of romance. You'll feel as if every day is Valentine's Day 80 pages (all in color), 9 x 9 1/4.

This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community. Drawing on fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, and Lefke, Cyprus (2013/2014), the author examines women's experiences within a particular performance of Sufi tradition. The focus is on the ritual named hadra, involving the recital of sacred texts, music, and body movement, where the goal is for the individual to reach a state of intimacy with God. The volume considers Sufi practice as a form of embodied cultural behavior, religious identity, and selfhood construction. It explains how Muslim women's participation in hadra ritual life reflects religious and cultural ideas about the body, the body's movement, and embodied selfhood expression within the ritual experience. Sufi Women, Ritual Embodiment and the 'Self' engages with studies in Sufism, symbolic anthropology, ethnography, dance, and somatic studies. Contributing to discussions of religion, gender, and the body, the book will be of interest to scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious ritual studies, Sufism and gender studies, and performance studies.

WHY PUBLISH: - The author applies over 15 years experience and insights as a theatre practitioner to her argument. - The book offers a fresh vantage point for a play that has been exhaustively analysed. - Shakespeare scholarship travels well globally, and so the work will appeal to a broad, international, English-speaking audience.

Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another. Crews and Lennox critically reflect on their ethnographic experiences of boxing and their reading of the cultural representations of the sport. They conceive of the project as an extended sparring session. This book offers a unique perspective on boxing in/as performance and boxing in/as culture. It explores how the connections between boxing and performance address ideas about bodies, relationships, intimacy, and combat. It challenges and renegotiates oft-repeated narratives used to make meaning about boxing. This volume examines questions of visibility, voice, and agency and will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of performance and media, and sport and social studies.

'On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between.' After his relationship with his girlfriend of 5 years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time - not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay man. Despite knowing it was the right decision, the reality of his new situation was terrifying. How could he be a gay man, when he was still learning what it was to be a man? Would the gay community embrace him or reject him? What would gay sex be like? And most importantly, would finding love again be possible? In this raw, intimate and unflinchingly honest book, we follow Harry as he navigates the sometimes fraught and contradictory worlds of contemporary gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr, dating and gay bars, to saunas, sex and ultimately, falling in love. Harry's brave and uplifting journey will show you there is joy in finding who you are.

Everything you need to know about 50 wild sex positions all in petite, easy-to-carry around mini-book. For couples who might be stuck in a one-position nooky rut, this mini Position Sex book gives couples quick ideas on how to spice up their sex life and be more adventurous in the bedroom (or any room, counter, or chair in the house.) Each of the 50 positions offers a four-color photograph of a wild sex position with its name, for example the Carnal Crossbow. You'll learn how to arrange the position and details the challenges and pleasures specific to each move. The guide features full-color photographs of each hot, new position, as well as acrobatic variations on good old standbys, such as the missionary position. Lovers can take position tips with them anywhere as they expand their bedroom repertoire.

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN HOW TO LOVE

When you fall in love you may be repeating bad relationship habits that you learned growing up or in a previous unhealthy relationship. No matter what your history, Getting Love Right can explain how to build and maintain healthy intimacy, including:

* How to recognize if you are in a compulsive, apathetic, or healthy relationship
* How to become a person who is capable of healthy intimacy
* How to choose a healthy partner

If you are in a relationship or want to be in one, Terence T. Gorski will teach you that love isn't just something that happens -- love is something you can learn.

Sex Talk shows how opening up discussions on bodies, sexuality and pleasure can lead to much, much better sex and self-esteem, by the eminent French feminist pornographer Olympe de Gê and feminist writer Stéphanie Estournet. Sex Talk has a clear mission – breaking the taboo of taboos – by opening up the discussion of sex and desire in a clear, engaging and motivational way. The book takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery through nine chapters, discussing everything from self-stimulation, exploring sexual orientation, communicating wants and desires with a partner, staying safe online when sexting, exploring erotica and porn and creating private content – but at the core is the pervading importance of owning your sexual self. A manifesto for sex positivity, Sex Talk is a book that every womxn should read; it’s straight talking, accessible, and most importantly, focuses on what we should be asking ourselves, as opposed to reinforcing the damaging, age-old stereotypes and constructs surrounding sex that detract from personal pleasure.

From the popular men's website AskMen.com comes a lively and practical guide to sex and the art of picking up women, the first installment of a three-part series. This guide takes readers through every step of the mating ritual, from approaching the woman one wishes to take home to dazzling her once you get her there. Broken up into Rules of Picking-up and Mating, "Askmen.Com Guide to Sex" begins by helping men learn the fundamentals of confidence and conversation, adapt to different pick-up environments be it the bar or the office, and create the type of setting at home that won't repel your prospective partner. The guide goes on to instruct men on the virtues of foreplay, how to meet a woman's expectations in the bedroom and how to distinguish yourself from the other men she's been with. Additionally, the book offers options for different locations where the deed can be done, and how to leave her like a gentleman, or cover your trail, according to circumstance. With tasteful line drawings and a friendly, humorous tone, this book is essential reading for the novice who wants to enter the game or the player who wants to polish his techniques.

Gila, 26, was at a party when the police showed up. The men were able to get away with bribes, but the women were taken to the station, and anyone who'd been drinking was forced to submit to a virginity test. She never went to another party after that. Zeinab is 20 and she loves being a woman in Iran. She says that she feels like a queen! And despite all the risks, she confesses that she makes love with her boyfriend because the danger excites her. Vahid is 26. He was a leader with the Green Movement. Then he watched his friend Neda die right in front of him. Now he keeps his head down, trying to finish his studies. In a series of vignettes based on clandestine interviews, this award-winning graphic novel explores the politics and love lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds. The result is an honest portrait of Iranian youth today and a rare glimpse into a society where the sexes are strictly segregated-and Western journalists aren't welcome. Through testimonies from across the country, we learn about traditional marriages, the pressures of living under the regime, and how young people escape the police and defy tradition to live their love stories.

To serve the evolution of consciousness and the realisation of true spirituality, sex - both as psychological impulse and as raw drive - must be purified of misuse and coercive force and refined into an enlightened and flexible substance. Likewise, the crystallised unconscious fixations of karma must be transmuted. This book, based on and including some of the practices from Reyo's Karma and Sexuality workshops, is the most complete guide available on the inner dynamics of human relationships and how this alchemical transformation might come about. It analyses the structural foundations of the mind and the physical organism - as well as higher mind or consciousness - in light of modern physics and psychological thought. This is the best of Freud wedded to the best of Jung and modern mysticism. The book's overtones are tantric, while its spirit is profoundly humanitarian and ecological, advocating the need for brotherhood and unity, and a more loving consciousness in which the truly earthly is indeed divine.

How do we experience attraction? What does love mean to us? When did you realise you were ace? This is the ace community in their own words. Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life. With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak to aces living and loving in unique ways. Find support amongst the diverse narratives of aces sex-repulsed and sex-favourable, alongside voices exploring what it means to be black and ace, to be queer and ace, or ace and multi-partnered - and use it as a springboard for your own ace growth. Do you see a story like your own?

Hailed by Utne Reader as "a visionary" and the San Francisco Chronicle as "the X-rated" intellectual," Susie Bright is indiputably the sexpert of our times.Now, in a frank and intimate look at our own erotic experience, she reveals the ways in which individual sexual expression has the power to inspire, challenge, and transform all of our lives. Bright explores some of the most complex questions about sexuality todaym including:

• What are the real differences between men's and women's sense of the erotic?
  
• Why is it so threatening to conscioulsy address sexual desire?
  
• Is there a line to be drawn in erotic creativity-can you go so far?
  
• How can articulate erotic expression make us better lovers, more important, better people?

Shows that sexual communication is an important part of any long-term loving relationship, and recommends finding time for sex and keeping sexually active.

Perfect for the bondage beginner or enthusiasts who wants more practice or new ideas, this book will show you bondage ties for many purposes and effects. Whether you're the top or bottom, dominant or submissive, male or female, this is an essential reference for your bedside table.

Lord Morpheous will take you through the basics of BDSM, including the vocabulary, pop culture references, understanding types of participants, and the basics of kink culture. Once you've got that knot tied, you'll quickly learn about both Eastern and Western styles of knot-tying, and receive step-by-step guidance and full color photos so tying knots becomes quick, easy, and fun. This handy guide to bondage also covers safety considerations, how to communicate with your lover, and how to take bondage to the next level.

In this remarkable new book, Dr. David Schnarch, world-renowned sex and marital therapist and author of Passionate Marriage, offers a groundbreaking approach to resolving sexual difficulties and the relationship problems they cause. By showing couples how they can turn their worst sex and relationship disasters into personal growth and spiritual connection, Dr. Schnarch offers couples the best sex of their lives.

In addition to taking an unflinchingly honest, realistic, and erotic approach to sex, Dr. Schnarch reveals the complicated emotional interactions hidden within couples' most private moments. Resurrecting Sex speaks of compassion, partnership, generosity, and integrity in adult sexual relationships, offering hope to millions of people -- golden-anniversary marriages, newly formed couples, and singles alike -- who are struggling with sexual difficulties.

Uplifting, provocative, and heartfelt, the book is organized into four sections:

• A crash course in sex
• Explanation of how sexual relationships really work
• Medical options and bionic solutions
• Vignettes of couples changing their sexual relationships

Resurrecting Sex addresses all major sexual issues, including male erection problems such as rapid orgasm and delayed orgasm; women's problems with arousal and lubrication, difficulty reaching orgasm, and low desire; full coverage of Viagra (for both men and women); and other sex-enhancing drugs and medical options. Rather than dwelling on sexual techniques, this sympathetic book shows how to cure the rejection, hostility, and emotional alienation that often accompany sexual problems. Its unique method helps couples develop the love, affection, and commitment that prevent divorce and strengthen families.

Generous of spirit, enlightened, and insightful, Resurrecting Sex is destined to make the world a better place to fall in love.

This is a very readable, useful and above all, deeply historical account of some of the defining tropes in art history and performance today. Written by world renowned feminist art historian, Amelia Jones, this genealogy is a key work bridging art historical and performance studies approaches. Each chapter includes 'Ruptures' - bursts of intimately written accounts of experiences of performance (and related interludes) - which help make the content accessible.

MOVE OVER CUPID, HERE IS THE LOVE POTION WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR…!

In this irresistible, witty guide, internationally acclaimed relationships expert, Leil Lowndes, reveals 85 proven techniques to help you capture the heart of anyone you choose. You will discover:
• how to meet that perfect someone
• successful first moves for ‘hunters’ and ‘huntresses’

• how to make an unforgettable first impression:
what to wear, how to avoid getting stuck in the small talk rut, and how to let your body do the talking
• how to GIVE first date butterflies
• when you should play hard to get (and when not to)
• he says/ she says: the differences between men and women (and how to use them to your advantage)
• how to awaken primal, unsettling, sexy feelings in your partner
• how to learn in one hour what will drive your partner wild in bed!

Read this book and you will gain the power to fuel the smallest spark of attraction into an all – consuming passion!

THE SHORT CUT ROUTE TO SURE FIRE SUCCESS IN LOVE

An accessible account of the cultural history of Chinese gender relations and sexuality, from the Ming dynasty to the Chinese Communist Party A unique insight of the life experiences of female impersonators in traditional Chinese theatre An engaging analysis of the transformation of Chinese society through the lens of theatre and performing arts An urgent assessment of the ambiguous role of male players of female roles in contemporary China

In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth-can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.