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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Sex & sexuality
""The Spanking Writers"" is well established as one of the web's
most highly acclaimed literary spanking sites. Now, for the first
time, this "best of" volume brings together the most popular posts
from the blog's first two years. Ideal bedside reading for fans of
the cane, tawse, birch and paddle; perfect if your kinky interests
embrace punished maids, disciplined schoolgirls and whipped
miscreants. Whether you're interested in historical spankings,
fetish fantasies or real-life corporal punishment scenes, "The
Spanking Writers" will entertain and stimulate.
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk
offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on
ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody sits us down and teaches us
how to love. So we're often thrown into relationships with nothing
but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until
now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a
collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable
steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love
better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose
together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a
break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles
the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in
together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to
avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners. By
living Jay Shetty's eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our
partner, and the world better than we ever thought possible.
With over thirty-five years experience in performing fellatio, and
three years of teaching the subject, the author combines his
background in science, nursing, and art history to educate men and
women interested in learning this fine art.
This book gives you an insight into the complexities of intimate
relationships. Through vivid portrayals of real-life problem
situations that couples face, it also gives clear, concise,
effective strategies for you and your partner to use in resolving
troubled areas in your relationship, so you can survive and grow as
a couple. Dr John Wright also examines myths and beliefs that
seriously reduce the chances of couple survival. He offers
constructive alternatives to the destructive reaction patterns that
are based on erroneous concepts of interpersonal relationships. A
series of self-tests helps you to create your personal couple
survival profile. The couple survival strategies he presents
involve effective communication, expression of love and sexual
intimacy, becoming effective problem-solvers, developing the fine
art of negotiating a compromise, learning techniques of
constructive arguing, handling the division of work, and coping
with separation. There is a frank discussion of the pros and cons
of open marriage. With the help of this book, you and your partner
can change negative behaviour patterns and replace them with
constructive couple survival strategies.
This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality
education. Utilizing student critiques of programs it reconfigures
key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be
part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students
prefer single or mixed gender classes?
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in
American men today, closely following lung cancer. About one man in
six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. But
only one in 35 will die from it. More than two million men in the
United States who have been diagnosed at some point are still alive
today. I am one of them. My book, Cancer is a Four-Letter Word: A
Pilgrimage into the Emotional, Sexual, and Spiritual Aspects of
Prostate Cancer, chronicles my own experience with this terrible
disease. From early diagnosis, fear, and panic, to shopping for the
best treatment, to surgery and subsequent recovery, I trace not
only the physical journey of getting my stamina and good health
back, but also the psychological and sexual implications. My format
includes an interweaving of my own story of prostate cancer with
other men's stories, along with open-ended questions at the end of
each chapter to keep men and their partners talking late into the
night. There's also a resource list to provide support for a
lifetime. Although concise and easy to read, my book doesn't hold
back any personal details. Readers will learn what to expect in
regard to diapering oneself post-surgery, working through
debilitating depression, and forging the uncharted territory of a
different kind of sexual intimacy. More importantly, they'll hear
about learning to accept support from loving friends and how to
talk to God in a whole new way. Rarely does a reader find an
account of experiencing God's overwhelming love and grace in the
same chapter as explicit details on how to give oneself penile
injections to overcome erectile dysfunction
A practical workbook from the New York Times-bestselling author of Come
As You Are that will radically transform your sex life.
In Come As You Are, sex educator Dr Emily Nagoski revealed the true
story behind female sexuality, uncovering the little-known science of
what makes us tick and, more importantly, how and why.
Now, in The Come As You Are Workbook, she offers practical tips and
techniques that will help women to have the mind-blowing sex that they
deserve (and that men have been having all along).
This collection of worksheets, journaling prompts, illustrations, and
diagrams is an engaging companion for anyone who wants to further their
understanding of their own bodies and sexuality.
Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often
belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close
examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures
reveals that American cinema has actually represented sex in myriad
ways. A more complete understanding of the ways in which sex has
been represented onscreen requires an approach that pays equal
attention to cinematic techniques and to the diversity of sexual
values and behaviors in American society. It is necessary to frame
this discussion within the multiple contradictions of an industry
that has both repressed and represented sex with equal fervor over
the course of its history; of audiences that have both taken
offense at and flocked to films with sexual themes; and a body
politic that has regulated the sexual in popular culture even as
its discourse has been saturated with sexual images and topics. The
History of Sex in American Cinema moves seamlessly between general
film and social history to clarify how exactly sex has been
expressed cinematically, and how we have responded to those
expressions as a culture. In March of 1965 the Supreme Court put
into motion legal changes that marked the end of local film
censorship as it had existed since the early years of the twentieth
century. In Hollywood that same year, The Pawnbroker was released
with a Production Code Seal of Approval, despite nudity that
violated that Code. As sexual liberation occurred onscreen,
parallel developments occurred in the way we lived our lives, and
by the end of the 1960s Americans were having sex more often, and
with more partners, than ever before. There was also now a public
debate surrounding sexuality, and one of the loudest and most
continually active voices in this debate was that of American film.
This work begins with an examination of some of the earliest
altercations in what later came to be known as the culture wars,
and follows those skirmishes, more often than not provoked by
American film, up to the modern day. By looking at how sex in the
cinema has contributed to the demise of the fragile consensus
between liberals and conservatives on freedom of expression, The
History of Sex in American Film suggests a perspective from which
today's culture wars can be better understood. This work combines
close readings of many representative films-including Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Blue Velvet, Philadelphia, L.A.
Confidential, and Closer-with a social and historical account of
the most significant changes in American sexual behavior and sexual
representation over the past fifty years.
A unique and important book. I have never read any work which
analyzes the subject in such a manner. This book is more thorough
and has a more liberated point of view than others which attempt to
tackle this hot potato' of the 1980s. Men should read this book.
Women should read this book.
"Karen DeCrow, former President, NOW"
This study slices like a laser through all the fog of rhetoric,
disinformation, bias, and fear that has long enveloped all
discussions of the subject of pornography in the US. No argument in
favor of the censorship of such material can be considered valid
unless the basic arguments of this study are answered. . . . This
is a valuable resource for all academic libraries and could well
become a fundamental weapon in the war to preserve the First
Amendment. This book should be purchased by all but the smallest
libraries; it may well be the most honest discussion of the subject
ever written. "Choice"
In the continuing debate over pornography, two arguments stand
out: that it is evil and should be censored, or that it is evil but
censorship is a greater evil. F. M. Christensen presents the other
side of this debate in what will surely be one of the most
controversial books on the subject. Pornography: "The Other Side"
convincingly argues that anti-pornography campaigns are themselves
morally evil. The author defends this startling claim with a
scientific persuasiveness. He successfully opens the pornography
debate to include the whole picture, allowing the reader to grasp
another side to this ongoing debate with concise, practical
arguments. Students and scholars of all the social sciences, as
well as the informed general reader, will find Pornography: The
Other Side a source of stimulating ideas.
Christensen concludes that pornography itself is not the
fundamental issue for those who oppose it. Vehement opposition to
pornography, according to this book, is a symptom of tragically
mistaken beliefs about sex. What this book is really about, writes
the author, is sex--and the evil effects on the lives of all of us
which irrational attitudes toward that subject continue to
have.
The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest
in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the
interpretation of past mentalites. Yet historians have only
recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth, establishing
that sexuality is not a biological constant but an ever-changing
phenomenon, continuously shaped by people themselves. The
contributors to this inter-disciplinary collection bring their
expertise in ancient as well as medieval history, anthropology,
modern history, and psychology to bear upon the history of
sexuality. They explore various aspects of sexuality in successive
periods: pederasty and lesbian love in antiquity, incest in the
Middle Ages, sexual education during the Dutch Republic, voyeurism
in the rococo, prostitution in Vienna around 1900, and the
invention of sexology. From Sappho to De Sade, first published in
1989, offers an informative and entertaining collection of essays
for students of cultural anthropology, social history and gender
studies.
Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Jim
Feast, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, and Shalom Neuman. Another
mammoth compilation from Downtown New York's "drinking group with a
writing problem," the previous perpetrators of THE WORST BOOK I
EVER READ, CRIMES OF THE BEATS, and Help Yourself , among other
innumerable assaults on decency and good taste. Now they finally
turn themselves to their most likely subject matter ever (even if
it's frequently more a matter of fantasy and theory than of deviant
practice). Contributors include Jonathan Lethem, Samuel Delany,
Penny Arcade, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bob Holman, Chavisa Woods, Amy
Ouzoonian, Tsaurah Litzky, Gerard Melanga, Jordan Zinovich,
Jennifer Blowdryer, Susan Scutti, and scores more. Includes a color
Fusion Art centerfold edited by Shalom Neuman, as well as 32 pages
in color.
Sex Diet is a new take on nutrition and healthy eating. Stress,
fatigue, tiredness, and low sexual energy are all symptoms of
twenty-first-century life. Sex Diet can help The author of Midnight
Moscow now takes us into the world of food, sensuality, libido, and
nutrition. With explanations, recipes, and more, we explore the
relationship between healthy food and sexuality. Each chapter
includes a thorough analysis of the vitamin and nutritional value
of the foods, recipes for their preparation, and their libidinal
effects. You get over 100 aphrodisiac recipes, ideas for vegetarian
meals and sexy memorable dishes. The book also explores the
connections among libido, exercise, attitude, and good sleep. Sex
Diet provides ideas for kinky sex games and explains why holistic
approach is better than synthetic drugs for libido boost. The
research shows how lifestyle changes can help develop a healthy
body and spirit, a strong relationship with one's partner, and an
exciting sex life.
How did Casanova learn the theory of sex? Why did male pornographers write as intellectual women? What forms of sexuality emerged in the age of educational, scientific, and political revolution? Schooling Sex reconstructs the vividly compelling loose canon of sexually-explicit literature, in Latin, Italian, French, and English.
This book is about different relationships that people goes in
life. It also gives some advice and insights on how to not only
keep your man but have him coming back for more.
When Cobb's friend dies by suicide the police say that it is an
open and shut case, but Cobb is far from satisfied. He follows his
nose and a few psychic intuitions, and what was a simple suicide
turns into a series of devilish crimes. Cobb tears himself away
from his university lecturing and follows a very dangerous course
to put all the clues together. He ends up asking himself the
question "how can a dead man have committed these crimes?" It is a
very traumatic time in Cobb's life. Not only does he escape death
by a hair's breadth, he finds himself having a passionate but
loving relationship with a younger woman
This unique book examines the relationship between wounding and
sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender,
power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of
disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and
psychology, it explores social practices such as S&M, cosmetic
surgery and extreme sports.
Not only is there mounting controversy over the benefit of statins
for cardiovascular health, but more importantly, the role
cholesterol plays in cardiovascular health and throughout the body.
Could it be that cholesterol is not an important predictor of heart
disease as has been previously thought? And could it be that in
fact cholesterol is vital for many different biochemical functions
that are affected by lowering cholesterol unnaturally? In the book
Sex, Lies, & Cholesterol, you will learn: v Why cholesterol may
not be the culprit of heart disease as previously thought. v Why
statins are being implicated for a number of serious side effects
including cancer. v The connection between sexual dysfunction and
inhibited cholesterol production from statin drugs. v A functional
medicine approach to correcting the underlying factors associated
with heart disease. v Simple lifestyle changes you can do to help
prevent heart disease.
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