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

The first edition of Sexual Conduct, published in 1973, swiftly became a landmark text in the sociology of sexuality. It went on to profoundly shape the ideas of several generations of scholars and has become the foundation text of what is now known as the "social constructionist" approach to sexuality. The present edition, revised, updated, and containing new introductory and concluding materials, introduces a classic text to a new generation of students and professionals.

Traditional views of human sexuality posit models of man and woman in which biological arrangements are translated into sociocultural imperatives. This is best summarized in the phrase "anatomy is destiny." Consequently, the almost exclusive concern has been with the power of biology and nature in sexual conduct as opposed to understanding the significance and impact of social life. In Sexual Conduct, Gagnon and Simon lucidly argue that sexual activities, of all kinds, may be understood as the outcome of a complex psychosocial process of development. Using the social script theory, the authors trace the ways in which sexuality is learned and fitted into particular moments in the lifecycle and in different modes of behavior.

Sexual Conduct is a major attempt to consider sexuality within a non-biological, social psychological framework. It is a valuable addition to the study of human sexuality, and will be of interest to students of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, social work, and medicine.

Time to learn all about what makes men turn on and stay on. In the spirit of 'full exposure' this is the closest you'll ever come to waking up in a guy's skin and knowing what truly makes him sexually tick. Sexual pleasure goes beyond tips and tactics, however. Our sexual identities and the expression, gratification, and growth of these identities is fundamental to the success of our intimate relationships. In step by step, and yes, 'bow by blow' detail, Kerner provides a clear, concise, achievable vision of sexual pleasure, one in which each technique forwards the action, and where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Written in the same witty, insightful, and utterly readable voice that has made "She Comes First" and "Be Honest You're Not That Into Him Either" so popular, this is the thinking woman's guide to enjoying sex to the fullest, and ensuring that he does the same.

If the woman of the house is miserable, everybody is miserable. Mama argues the opposite is true as well - if the woman is happy, everybody is happy--which leads her to a fundamental truth about relationships: they work best when the woman's desires are completely fulfilled. Mama also reveals a surprising corollary to this truth: men live to please women, whether they know it or not. MAMA GENA'S OWNERS AND OPERATORS GUIDE TO MEN teaches women how to better understand men and effectively "train" men for relationships full of satisfaction, friendship, and intimacy. She explains how women can investigate what gives them pleasure, how to communicate their desires, how to show appreciation, and how to give back so that both partners get what they want. Mama's theory is based on the idea there are two basic relationship paradigms, the survival model (in which women serve men in order to get food/shelter/etc.) and the Mama Gena model (in which men serve women in order to get greater friendship/sex/happiness, etc.).

If you feel in the deepest part of your being, that you deserve intimacy and ecstasy, this book is for you. No body came into this life with an instruction manual on how to do it right, nor do they teach you in school how to have successful relationships. Most of us have had to learn from the school of hard knocks. What if there were an instruction manual and you could bypass learning the hard way of doing it wrong over and over again? Let "Great Relationship & Fabulous Sex Expert," Toni De Marco, guide you through her simple system to dissolve power struggles and other relationship problems: The H.E.A.R.T. System - Light Your Relationship on Fire Healing with Communication & Creating Intimacy Embracing Love by Starting Within & Finding the Highest Good Attracting the Love You Want & More Through Energy Dynamics Ramping-Up Your Juiciness by Feeling Male & Female Energy Differences Trusting Your Passion as You Learn Orgasmic Response & Build Energy

Girls, Performance, and Activism offers artists, activists, educators, and scholars a comprehensive analysis, celebration, and critique of the ways in which teenage girls create and perform activist theater. Girls, particularly Black and Latinx teenagers, are using the tools of performance to share their stories, devise new ones, and use the stage to advocate for social change. Interweaving interviews, poetic text, drama, and theory, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how and why this field erupted and the ways in which girls are using performance to transform themselves and enact change in their communities. As a white woman who has collaboratively created theater with hundreds of girls of color over the past 20 years, Dana Edell offers strategies for engaging with girls across difference through an intersectional lens in order to acknowledge the ways in which race, gender, age, class, ability, and sexuality influence girls' experiences and relationships with adult collaborators as they work to create meaningful, impactful, and often personal activist performances. This is the go-to handbook for teachers, theater directors, and performance makers who want to create politically engaged work with teenage girls.

Love, sex and desire . . . how do we experience them? How do we relate them to the opposite sex? In 24 short chapters Alina Reyes writes in a range of styles: she can be erotic, poetic, humorous and candid. She describes her fantasies and her relationship with her own body. Alina Reyes also examines the social pressures, which lead to the premature deaths of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, and which contribute to widespread attitudes of machismo and/or shame. A serious examination of the nature of desire and how it fits in with the strictures of society.

Alina Reyes, one of the first female authors of erotica, has written several novels including the bestseller "The Butcher" (1988), which sold 500,000 copies in her native France.

Switch off the mind, awaken all the senses and become aware of your whole body with this superbly illustrated guide to using and enhancing Tantric sexual energy. Tantra, the Tao of Love, is an Eastern path to self-development. Central to that path is healthy sexual energy, which needs to be harmonized if we're to live life happily and fulfil our true potential. The Tantra involves letting your mind go and learning to express yourself through your body. The Tantra nurtures intimacy, sexual and emotional self-confidence and the healthy development of sexual energy flow through the whole body. As the mind and body become harmonised by Tantric sex, communication skills, personal creativity and spontaneity are enhanced. 101 Nights of Tantric Sex leads you through 101 nights of rituals and meditations to bring you closer to the divine, including: Affirming your commitment * Playing the Yin-Yang game * Honouring your partner * Creating sacred space * Erotic touch * Co-mingling breath * Anointing the Chakras

This controversial approach to marriage has transformed thousands of relationships, bringing women romance, harmony, and the intimacy they crave.

Like millions of women, Laura Doyle wanted her marriage to be better. But when she tried to get her husband to be more romantic, helpful, and ambitious, he withdrew -- and she was lonely and exhausted from controlling everything. Desperate to be in love with her man again, she decided to stop telling him what to do and how to do it.

When Doyle surrendered control, something magical happened. The union she had always dreamed of appeared. The man who had wooed her was back.

The underlying principle of The Surrendered Wife is simple: The control women wield at work and with children must be left at the front door of any marriage. Laura Doyle's model for matrimony shows women how they can both express their needs and have them met while also respecting their husband's choices. When they do, they revitalize intimacy.

Compassionate and practical, The Surrendered Wife is a step-by-step guide that teaches women how to:

• Give up unnecessary control and responsibility
• Resist the temptation to criticize, belittle, or dismiss their husbands
• Trust their husbands in every aspect of marriage -- from sexual to financial

And more.

The Surrendered Wife will show you how to transform a lonely marriage into a passionate union.

If God means for us to save sex for marriage, why doesn't he just zap us with sexuality on our wedding night? Why do most of us experience sexual feelings throughout our adult lives, not just in the safe confines of marriage? Is limiting marriage to the union of a man and a woman anything but outdated prejudice? What is our sexuality actually for? Today's culture overwhelmingly tells us that sex is essential for human flourishing. Far too often the church perpetuates the same message - as long as you are married. But far from being liberating, this idolising of sex leaves us even more sexually broken than before. With refreshing honesty and clarity, Ed Shaw calls on the church to rediscover its confidence in the Bible's teaching about our ability to experience or express sexual feelings. He points us to how God's word reveals that sexuality's ultimate purpose is to help us better know God and the full power of his passionate love. He shows us how this is surprisingly good news for all our joys and struggles with sexuality.

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.

This mesmerizing exploration of the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power is a masterful analysis of civilization's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra to JFK, as well as the classic literature of seduction from Freud to Kierkegaard and Ovid to Casanova. Robert Greene once again identifies the rules of a timeless, amoral game and explores how to cast a spell, break down resistance, and, ultimately, compel a target to surrender. Presenting the timeless profiles of each type of seducer and the twenty-four maneuvers that will guide you step by step in the game of seduction, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals the timeless power of this age-old art.

Fifty shades of . . . "COSMO" No one knows fun, fearless sex like Cosmo-and these kinky games will show the world what "hot" really means. Open the deck of cards, and you'll find 10 very, very naughty activities to spice up your lovemaking, including the "Sex Ninja Game"; "Master & Servant"; "Talk Dirty to Me"; "Sex for Dessert" (don't forget the black licorice whips); and the "Cosmo S&M Challenge." Do you dare to play?

This lay public book explains healthy male sexuality, written by, for and about men. It is for men and their partners as they negotiate their sexuality around healthy practices. The work is organized around three main topics - awareness and enhancement of sexuality, dealing with sexual problems, and lifelong healthy sexuality. A multidimensional model for a comprehensive understanding of sexual health and sexual problems founded on current biological, psychological, and medical research is discussed in terms appropriate for the general reader. discuss how to pursue sexual and relationship health, enhance sexual satisfaction. Problems such as premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, inhibited sexual desire, ejaculatory inhibition and compulsive sexual behavior are examined in terms of their causes and prescriptions for treatment are offered. Exercises and activities engage the reader to highlight important points, provide skills training, and stimulate healthy sexual practice.

Sex in the Outdoors says it all! If you enjoy-or strive to have the opportunity to enjoy-sex in the vast outdoors, then you've laid hands on the ultimate resource. Benefits include: Increased self-esteem Increased awareness of bears and other critters Increased fitness of necessary body parts Increased awareness of possible partners Increased interest in getting it Increased chance of getting it Increased chance of getting away with it Whether you want it, someone you know wants it, or you have a sex-starved niece or nephew who needs it-Buck Tilton's Sex in the Outdoors promises to deliver the intimate yet practical information all sex-crazed outdoor folks need to know, whether they know they need to know or not."Outdoor passion without proper planning can have unexpected consequences, such as your partner moaning, "Oh, Baby, is that poison oak?" Thank goodness for the Minister of Sex, Buck Tilton, M.S., and his book." -Michael Hodgson, author of the humor series No Shit, There I Was and publisher of www.geartrends.com

Drawing on extensive professional and personal experience, this book offers guidance and advice on how to better communicate with 12-18-year olds about relationships and sexuality. An invaluable resource for teachers and parents, it provides you with the tools you need to feel confident and informed about how to talk about sex education at all stages. The book explores the challenges in adult-child communication about sexuality and provides helpful advice on how to establish an open and positive dialogue, covering topics like social media, porn and sexual development in UK, US and Australian contexts. Specific age-based guidance and exercises are also offered. Finally, the book ends with the Flag System for identifying 'acceptable/nonacceptable' sexual behaviour and next steps. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of positive sexuality education, empowering young people to make their own choices on how to enjoy their relationships and sexuality in a safe and consensual way.

Sexually curious adults can learn how to enjoy bedroom bondage in an easy step-by-step fashion while still being tasteful, playful, and authentic Rope bondage is not just about tying someone up; it is an opportunity for sensuality, creativity, playfulness, connection, and passion. Bondage artist and educator Lee Harrington takes you on a journey through easy step-by-step ties and exercises for bringing you and your partner closer together through this beautiful art form. The second book in the Shibari You Can Use series, More Shibari You Can Use picks up where the first book left off, with all new ties in a playful, down-to-earth, and engaging voice. But it's about more than the bondage. This time you also get a chance to connect more with your partner through a variety of exercises that explore touch, dominance and submission, intimacy, and trust. With beautifully shot images by RiggerJay, this guide offers intermediate techniques for those ready for a challenge, broken down into clear directions for new and experienced "riggers" alike. Find techniques for learning rope bondage negotiation, speed restraint (Texas handcuffs and speed-release corsets), intricate confinement (the reverse box tie and the woven head cage), beautiful erotic rope (from the Triskelion crotch rope to the floral chest harness), and much more. Are you ready to have fun? To deepen your connection with your partner? To create beautiful artwork woven on the human form? To add some spice to your erotic life? Now is your chance. Set aside your concerns about tying someone up, grab this book and some rope, and learn passionate rope bondage for an intimate connection.

In thirty five letters to Tiger Woods, psychotherapist Bob Beverley illumines the possible dynamics behind the fall of Tiger Woods-dynamics that are a part of every human life. He offers wisdom on relationships, affairs and the many ways we cheat ourselves and one another. He explores related issues of guilt, shame, forgiveness, leaving people behind and starting over again. This is a book written for real people with real problems-who want to make their life better. If you want to throw stones at Tiger Woods, do not buy this book. If you want to be wiser about relationships, your inner life and the illusions of our world, buy this book today.

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This new approach, examining speech exchanges between a speaker and audience in which both anticipate, interact with, and respond to each other and each other's expectations, demonstrates that the prescriptive process involves a dynamic exchange in which each side plays a role in establishing and contesting the boundaries of acceptable speech for women. Drawing from a wide range of evidence, including pamphlets, diaries, illustrations, and plays, the book interprets the various and at times contradictory representations and reception of women's speech that circulated in early modern England. Speech scenes examined within include wives' speech to their husbands in private, private speech between women, public speech before death, and the speech of witches. Looking at scenes of women's speech from male and female authors, Smith argues that these early modern texts illustrate a means through which societal regulations were negotiated and modified. This book will appeal to those with an interest in early modern drama, including the playwrights Shakespeare, Cary, Webster, Fletcher, and Middleton, as well as readers of non-dramatic early modern literary texts. The volume is of particular use for scholars working in the areas of early modern literature and culture, women's history, gender studies, and performance studies.

After many years of exploration, Diana Richardson found that the ancient practice of Tantra, with its unique, intelligent approach to sex, had the effect of enhancing intimacy and deepening love. Here she has adapted Tantra for modern Western lovers in a practical, sympathetic way. Tantric Sex can transform your experience into a more sensual, loving and fulfilling one. First published in 2003, the bestselling Heart of Tantric Sex has become the standard in its field.

Foundations of Rope Bondage is the ultimate guide to rope bondage that is perfect for curious beginners who are searching for a friendly and fun introduction to this creative and beautiful art form.

Don't know where to start? That's okay! This book introduces readers to rope bondage by explaining the basics of rope itself and details fun ties in clear and easy to understand language. With Lazarus's jargon-free and judgement-free descriptions, as well as step-by-step photographs, he has created a fun and informative introduction to this enticing form of play. One of Lazarus's main concerns is making sure all participants are able to give informed consent and understand everything they need to know before they begin to explore rope bondage; which is why he spends two full chapters detailing the safety and medical considerations. Anyone and everyone who is interested can join in on this intimate and wildly fun adventure! Starting with four fundamental knots, Lazarus builds from core concepts to teach readers how to create a staggering number of rope scenes. With detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs, this book breaks down 16 essential rope bondage techniques into simple concepts that everyone can learn. The essence of all rope bondage is in the fundamentals, and this is what Foundations of Rope Bondage delivers. Once you have mastered the techniques in this book, you will have the foundations on which to build your library of knots and ties. Lazarus uses easy-to-learn beginner knots like the Lark's Head and the Half Hitch to create key ties like the Lark's Head Single Column and Chest & Hip Harnesses. With the basic knots and ties down pat, readers will have everything they need to move on to more advanced knots and ties.

While rope bondage can be an erotic art, this book's purpose is education, not titillation. All of the models are covered in a white suit to make each knot and the steps to creating them easy to see. Combined with Lazarus's classic blue gloves, it makes following each step straightforward. Lazarus's distinct teaching style and phenomenal step-by-step photographs make learning these amazing ties fun and easy.

Foundations of Rope Bondage will set you up for a future of rope-filled adventures.