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This book is one woman's funny, moving, and sometimes awkward quest
to fix her sex life, but it's the story of millions of women
everywhere - half of all women have felt pain during sex. During
award-winning writer and performer Fran Bushe's journey towards
building a better relationship with her genitals, doctors advised
her to have a glass of wine to loosen up, and male friends
suggested she simply hadn't 'tried' the right penis yet.
Unsurprisingly, neither worked. After a visit to Sex Camp and many
attempts to fix her 'broken' vagina, Fran decided to share her own
hilarious, excruciating, and sometimes upsetting experiences. With
the help of her 16 year old self's diary, expert advice, candid and
enlightening interviews with others about sex, and some self-care
exercises, Fran sets about trying to make herself, and other
people, feel like they're not being gaslit by their own vaginas.
From Joan of Arc to Britney Spears, the figure of the virgin has
been the subject of considerable scholarly and popular interest.
Yet virginity itself is a paradoxical condition, both perfect and
monstrous, present and absent, often visible only insofar as it is
under threat. Medieval Virginities traces some of the specific
manifestations of virginity in late medieval culture. It shows how
virginity is represented in medical, legal, hagiographical and
historical texts, as well as how the seductive but dangerous figure
of the virgin affects the aims and objectives of these texts.
Because virginity is so often thought of as self-identical and
ahistorical, Medieval Virginities aims to theorize and historicize
its various manifestations and to demonstrate how representations
and discussions of virginity continuously shift and change. The
variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both
to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and
importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent
ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and
discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies. It will be
essential reading for anyone interested in questions of gender
identity, conceptions of the body, subjectivity, truth and
representation in medieval culture.
The perfect Valentine's Day gift! AS FEATURED IN THE SUN Everything
you need to know to have the best sex according to your star sign.
Next time you have sex, you'll be seeing stars... Harness the power
of the zodiac to guide you to pleasure that's out of this world.
From what sex positions will have you ascending, to the turn-ons
that'll make more than just the moon rise, as well sex toys,
masturbation tips and more - this little book has big astrology
energy. A cheeky hardback with foil on the cover corresponding to
your sign's element (earth, water, air or fire) and illustrations
throughout - this is the perfect guide for out-of-this-world fun.
It's time to let your ruling planet show you how to rule the
bedroom.
You learn the piano from a music teacher. A tennis coach helps you
better your serve. When you want to improve your skills in the
bedroom, who do you turn to? Naturally, people who "do it" for a
living. "Bang Like a Porn Star" is a comprehensive how-to on
everything from hooking up to getting down and dirty. Featuring
tips from some of today's hottest gay adult talent like Grabby
Award-winners Rocco Steele, JJ Knight, Tayte Hanson, Ryan Rose, and
others, this is the book every gay man will want to read in order
to learn what to do-and what not to do-when providing oral
pleasure, going for gold, navigating oversized equipment, creating
your own home sex video, and keeping it safe. This lavishly
illustrated volume is the guide book you've been waiting for!
The members of the Web PATH Center, a pagan church and spiritual
community in Lyons, NY, wondered what would happen if they wrote a
book about sex. The book needed to be spiritual. It needed to be
sexy. It needed to be explicit. Sacred Sex and Magick is the
result. The group describes how ordinary ritual practices like
grounding and creating a cone of power involve sensuality and
rising kundalini energy. They explain how to use that power in
making magick happen. Then they share secrets of the Great Rite and
how to include the power of the sacred marriage at home. This book
is for people who want a spiritual path that involves the physical
ecstasy of sex and the dynamics of magick that works. Solitaries,
pagan partners and spouses, and people with spirit lovers will all
dance with the ecstasy found in this book.
'Gripping' Vogue 'Empowering' Cosmopolitan 'Joyful' Financial Times
'Eye-popping' Daily Mail When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended,
47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to
be over. What she hadn't expected: * An incredible one-night stand
* A new-found sexual appetite * Ten men in eight months * That
there is plenty of fun to be had after 40 From G-spots to bald
spots, dirty talk to dating fiascos, Available is the unflinchingly
honest, empowering, and humorous true story of one woman's love
life after divorce. 'A real page-turner [...] Unexpected, original,
funny and sometimes deeply infuriating, Laura Friedman Williams has
so much to say about what we expect of women's sexuality. I loved
it' Viv Groskop author of How to Own the Room
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The Science of Orgasm
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Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores, Beverly Whipple
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This fascinating and comprehensive book is the first to explore the
complex biological process behind orgasm. Here, sexuality
researcher and nurse Beverly Whipple, coauthor of the international
best-selling book The G Spot and Other Discoveries about Human
Sexuality, joins neuroscientist Barry R. Komisaruk and
endocrinologist Carlos Beyer-Flores to view orgasm through the
lenses of behavioral neuroscience along with cognitive and
physiological sciences. The authors explain how and why orgasms
happen, why they fail, and what brain and body events are put into
play at the moment of orgasm. No topic is left unexplored, as the
book describes the genitalia-brain connection, how the brain
produces orgasms, how aging affects orgasm, and the effects of
prescription medication, street drugs, hormones, disorders, and
diseases. There are fascinating explanations of orgasms - in
persons after spinal cord injury, in epileptics during seizures,
and in transsexual men with surgically created vaginas. Covering
every type of sexual peak experience in women and men - from
intense to phantom - this informative and entertaining work
illuminates the hows, whats, and wherefores of orgasm.
After a decade of caring for crazy and keeping her mother's mental
illness a secret from the outside world, twenty-year-old Paolina
Milana longs for just one year free from the madness of her home.
When she gets the chance to go to an out-of-state school, she takes
it, but her family won't leave her be. Letter after letter arrives,
constantly reminding her of the insanity rooted in her family tree.
Even worse, the voices in her own head whisper words she's not sure
are normal. "Please don't make me be like Mamma," she prays to a
God she's not sure is listening. The unexpected death of her father
soon after she returns home leaves Paolina in shock-and in charge
of her paranoid schizophrenic mother. But it isn't until she is
twenty-seven and her sister two years her junior explodes in a
psychotic episode and, just like Mamma, is diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia and must be committed, that Paolina descends into her
own despair, nearly losing herself to the darkness. Poignant and
impactful, Committed is one woman's story of resilience as she
struggles to stay sane despite the madness that surrounds her.
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