Psychology: sexual behaviour Books
Vintage Publishing The Mating Mind
Book SynopsisAn intelligently provocative book about Darwin's other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has influenced the evolution of the human mind.Many aspects of the human mind remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection can explain the evolution of most life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that seem most uniquely and profoundly human - art, morality, consciousness, creativity and language. Yet these aspects of human nature need not remain evolutionary mysteries. Until fairly recently most biologists have ignored or rejected Darwin''s claims for the other great force of evolution - sexual selection through mate choice, which favours traits simply because they prove attractive to the opposite sex. But over recent years biologists have taken up Darwin''s insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest.WitTrade ReviewIntriguing... The discussion of the mind as a mechanism of attracting mates is fascinating * Washington Post Book World *A refined, an intellectually ingenious, and a very civilised discussion of the possible importance of sexual selection for mental evolution -- John Constable, Cambridge University * Psychology, Evolution, and Gender *Entertaining and wide-ranging * Nerve *Flies in the face of evolutionary orthodoxy - proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and others - which suggests that cultures evolve on their own, separate from the evolution of the human mind * Observer *Thoughtful, witty and vividly written -- Richard Dawkins
£11.69
Oxford University Press Sexuality
Book SynopsisWhat shapes our sexuality? Is it a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have concepts of sexuality and sexual norms changed over time? How have feminist theories, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex?Focusing on the social, political, and psychological aspects of sexuality, this Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our attitudes to sex have in turn shaped the wider world. Revealing how our assumptions about what is ''normal'' in sexuality have, in reality, varied widely across time and place, this book tackles the major topics and controversies that still confront us when issues of sex and sexuality are discussed: from sex education, HIV\AIDS, and eugenics, to religious doctrine, gay rights, and feminism.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1. Before Sexuality ; 2. The Invention of Sexuality ; 3. Virgins or Whores? Feminist Critiques of Sexuality ; 4. The State in the Bedroom ; 5. The Future of Sex ; References and Further Reading
£9.49
Transworld Publishers Ltd Perv
Book SynopsisJesse Bering, PhD, is a frequent contributor to Scientific American and Slate. His writing has also appeared in New York magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, among other publications, and has been featured by NPR, Playboy Radio, the BBC, and more. The author of The God Instinct, Bering is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University, Belfast, and began his career as a professor at the University of Arkansas. He lives in Ithaca, New York.Trade ReviewAn entertaining catalogue of the erotic carnival and a plea for tolerance -- Bryan Appleyard * The Sunday Times *As mind-boggling as it is informative * Independent on Sunday *It's hard to disagree with Bering's generous liberalism * The Times *A serious and humane book * Guardian *A whirlwind journey through the kinks of the human personality... In entertaining fashion, this psychologist aims to show that normal is just a number; that many of us have strange quirks so quite the moralising * The Times, Summer Books *A delightful, intelligent, and thought-provoking addition to the growing body of our sexual knowledge of self * Publishers Weekly *Jesse Bering is the Hunter S. Thompson of science writing, and he is a delight to read - funny, smart, and madly provocative. * Professor Paul Bloom, Yale University *A colourful romp through psychology, philosophy and popular culture. * New Humanist *
£10.44
Beacon Press Ace What Asexuality Reveals About Desire Society
Book SynopsisAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of as
£21.25
Inner Traditions Bear and Company Desire
Book Synopsis• Explains how the primal energy generated by physical desire can be used to achieve enlightenment • Reveals the techniques used by Tantric adepts to attain mastery over breath, thought, and all physical processes Nothing can match the explosive energy created in the body by pure desire. For millennia, Tantric adepts have harnessed this force as a means of attaining the summits of the mystical life. The energies fueled by passion are used to nourish the inner flame that burns away the egotistical perception of the mind.Desire explores the subtle techniques of Tantra that enable the seeker to attain the triple mastery of the breath, thought, and the natural processes of the body. Tantrics believe that the body is the temple and divinity lies at its heart. In order to arrive at profound awareness, the body needs to be perfectly tuned and working toward a state of perfect fluidity. Desire reveals many of the secret practices intended for this purpose that have been passed down in the major Tantric treatises such as the Vijnanabhariva Tantra and Ch'an master Chinul's treatise on the Secrets of Cultivating the Mind, including the important techniques of the ritual sexual observances known as Maithuna.
£9.89
Baker Publishing Group Have a New Sex Life by Friday Because Your
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author and trusted relationship expert offers straightforward advice guaranteed to rev up any couple's sex life--in just five days.
£16.53
InterVarsity Press Understanding Gender Dysphoria
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Orion Publishing Co Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause?Human sexuality seems normal to us but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals. Jared Diamond argues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as were our large brains. He also describes the battle of the sexes in the human and animal world over parental care, and why sex differences in the genetic value of parental care provide a biological basis for the all-too-familiar different attitudes of men and women towards extramarital sex.Trade ReviewJared Diamond is the finest of the essayists in evolutionary biology by combination of originality, breadth and sheer authority based on personal experienceWHY IS SEX FUN? is the best book on the subject I've read. This lively exploration of our sexual heritage offers fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they do
£12.35
Inner Traditions Bear and Company The Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra
Book SynopsisA fully illustrated Kama Sutrafrom the extraordinary and rare art collection of Lance Dane.Trade Review"Gives us the dazzling artwork from museums and private collections worldwide... fascinating...sex has not changed in over 2,000 years." * Lois Mark Stalvey, Red Rock News, January 28, 2004 *"A new, gorgeously illustrated edition of the famous Hindu Classic." * Erotic Review, Dec/Jan 2004, Issue 58 *"It is not, in fact, a pornographic work, but a book depicting the art of living for the civilized and refined citizen, finding its expression in the sphere of love, eroticism, and the sensual pleasures of life. . . . Rather than calling the Kama Sutra pornography and hiding it on the highest shelf of their bookcases, Western readers should see it as the expression of a refined, sophisticated people on the art of love." * Audrey Chaix, Vulpes Libris, Jan 2010 *Table of ContentsThe Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra Preface to Kama SutraIntroduction to Kama SutraBook 1--General Principles Study of the Shastras Dharma, Artha, Kama Study of Arts, Sciences Man about Town Nayikas and MessengersBook 2--Love-Play and Sexual Union Sexual Union The Embrace The Kiss Pressing and Nail Marks The Bite Sexual Vigor and Intensity Striking and Spontaneous Sounds Donning the Male Role Oral Congress Beginning and End of CongressBook 3--Courtship and Marriage Betrothal and Marriage Instilling Confidence in the Bride Courting a Maid Behavior of a Couple Kinds of MarriageBook 4--The Wife Duties of a Wife Senior and Junior WivesBook 5--Seducing the Wives of Others Characteristics of Men and Women Getting Acquainted Ascertaining Emotions Duties of a Go-between Behavior of a King Conduct of Ladies of the Inner CourtBook 6--The Courtesan Beguiling the Right Man Living as his Wife Acquiring Wealth Reconciliation Special Gains Gains and LossesBook 7--Secret Lore, Extraneous Stimulation, and Sexual Power Beautifying the Body Regarding Virility
£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
Book Synopsis“Captivating…a real person comes through in its page…Lively, hellacious, entertaining, sharp, feisty, and touching.” —Salon.comHow to Make Love Like a Porn Star, the mega-bestselling memoir, triumphant survival story, and cautionary tale that spent over six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and rocketed adult film icon Jenna Jameson into the mainstream spotlight, is now in paperback for the very first time. Her unforgettable memoir is many things at once: a shocking sexual history; an insider’s guide to the secret workings of the billion-dollar adult-film industry; and a gripping thriller that probes deep into Jameson’s dark past. With never-before-seen photographs from Jenna’s private collection, exclusive photos taken for this book, and original cartoon strips, this memoir is an unparalleled exploration of sexual freedom. Trade Review"Fascinating." -- Entertainment Weekly "In this book, Jameson gets you rooting for her... Captivating ... a real person comes through in its page... Lively, hellacious, entertaining, sharp, feisty, and touching enough to earn Jameson the right to wear the 'Heart Breaker' tattoo on her right butt cheek." -- Salon.com "Thespian talent notwithstanding, an adult movie performer's greatest asset is stamina; and by that measure Jenna Jameson the author deserves accolades. She is tireless... Jenna Jameson aims high ... for aspiring performers, it's a gold mine." -- New York Times Book Review "With its wit...its celebrity dish...and its frank, one-fisted prose style...the queen of porn's autobiography is destined to become a lowbrow classic. Remarkably appealing and honest...should earn Jameson some of the mainstream acceptance she so clearly desires." -- Publishers Weekly "It will undoubtedly move her into the mass market even further." -- Wall Street Journal "As you'd expect, it's chock full of oh-my-God tidbits." -- Newsweek "G-stringed Horatio Alger story." -- New York Times "Wow!" -- Esquire Fashion-magazine-quality color photographs...So far How to Make Love Like a Porn Star has received more favorable notices than just about any prescriptive book - on sex or any other topic." -- New York Post "Racy" -- Star "Jenna Jameson is the biggest adult film star in the world... She's a legend in her own time." -- Playboy "Jenna Jameson is an Icon." -- 101 magazine "The woman who put the star in porn star." -- Rolling Stone
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mating in Captivity
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc She
Book SynopsisA revised edition of a landmark work of psychology; the author uses the ancient myth of Amor and
£12.79
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sex at Dawn
Book SynopsisProvides evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality to show how far from human nature monogamy really is. This title exposes the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity.Trade Review"Sex At Dawn has helped me understand myself and the world so much more clearly." -- Ilana Glazer, co-creator of Broad City "Sex At Dawn is the single most important book about human sexuality since Alfred Kinsey unleashed Sexual Behavior in the Human Male on the American public in 1948." -- Dan Savage "Funny, witty, and light ... Sex at Dawn is a scandal in the best sense, one that will have you reading the best parts aloud and reassessing your ideas about humanity's basic urges well after the book is done." -- Newsweek "Sex At Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way... This is a provocative, entertaining, and pioneering book. I learned a lot from it and recommend it highly." -- Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Healthy Aging "Sex At Dawn is a provocative and engaging synthesis... that has the added benefit of being a joy to read... A book sure to generate discussion, and one likely to produce more than a few difficult conversations with family marriage counselors." -- Eric Michael Johnson, Seed Magazine "You clearly have an exciting book on your hands, whether people agree with it or not: these are issues that will need debating over and over before we will arrive at a resolution." -- Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy "A wonderfully provocative and well-written book which completely re-evaluates human sexual behaviour and gets to the root of many of our social and psychological ills." -- Steve Taylor, author of The Fall and Waking From Sleep "One of the most original books I've read in years, Sex at Dawn manages to be both enormously erudite and wildly entertaining-even, frequently, hilarious... A must-read for anyone interested in where our sexual impulses come from." -- Tony Perrottet, author of Napoleon's Privates "This paradigm-shifting book is a thoroughly original discussion of the origins and nature of human sexuality... These authors have a gift for making complex material reader-friendly, filling each chapter with humor and passion as well as dozens of revolutionary insights." -- Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. "Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature..." -- Stanton Peele, Ph.D.
£10.79
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden
Book SynopsisIt is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows there is a problem. Such is the case right now with our wounded feeling function- our inability to find joy, worth, and meaning in life. Robert A. Johnson, the celebrated author of ''He, She'', and ''We'', revisits two medieval tales and illuminates how this feeling function has become a casualty of our modern times.Johnson tells the story of the Wounded Fisher King from the Grail Myth to illustrate the anxiety and loneliness that plague men. From the folktale of the Handless Maiden, he explains the very different frustrations of women and describes how these disparities in the way we suffer account for much of the tension and miscommunication between men and women. His insightful analysis shows that these two stories, created centuries ago, are even more relevant today.Robert A. Johnson, a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst, is also the author of ''He, She, We, Inner Work, Ecstasy, Transformation'', and ''Owning Your Own Shadow''.
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lying with the Heavenly Woman
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of He, She, and We analyzes two mythic stories that illuminate the malaise of our time--the wounded feeling function.
£11.39
Penguin Putnam Inc The Art of Seduction
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a mesmerizing handbook on seduction: the most subtle and effective form of power When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four maneuvers and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over his target. Understand how to Poeticize Your Presence, Keep them in Suspense - What Comes Next and Master the Art of the Bold Move. Every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate form of power.
£20.80
Penguin Young Readers This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye.Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means that being on the birth control pill makes women a different version of themselves than when they are off of it. And this is a big deal. For instance, women on the pill have a dampened cortisol spike in response to stress. While this might sound great (no stress!), it can have negative implications for learning, memory, and mood. Additionally, because the pill influences who women are attracted to, being on the pill may inadvertently influence who women choose as partners, which can have important implications for their relationships once they go off it. Sometimes these changes are for the better . . . but other times, they're for the worse. By changing what women's brains do, the pill also has the ability to have cascading effects on everything and everyone that a woman encounters. This means that the reach of the pill extends far beyond women's own bodies, having a major impact on society and the world. This paradigm-shattering book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. It will change the way that women think about their hormones and how they view themselves. It also serves as a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research. This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they're on the pill or off of it.
£16.00
Beacon Press Desire
Book SynopsisA radically inclusive, sex-positive guide to managing the inevitable libido differences in our relationships, authored by two certified sex therapists who are passionate about good sex Desire invites readers of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, and relationship structures to shed the shame and misinformation that surround the topic of sex and instead learn from 2 certified sex therapists about how libido really works. Desire differences are one of the most common relationship issues, yet, with fewer than 1,100 certified sex therapists in the country, it can be difficult to find help. This essential book breaks the mold of the sex self-help genre, which typically focuses only on cisgender women. Through the authors’ expert guidance readers will learn about embracing a more expansive definition of sex, identifying various factors that can impact libido, managing anxiety around sex (one of the biggest libido killers
£21.71
Beacon Press Ace
Book SynopsisAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of as
£12.74
Fordham University Press Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis book offers theological, historical, and sociological treatments of sexuality in the Orthodox Christian world. It presents both academic and pastoral reflections on sex, seeking to open up the conversation about homosexuality and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity, aiming to create an agora for discussing the sexualities that are often thought of as untraditional.Table of ContentsForeword | ix Metropolitan Ambrosius, Helsinki Acknowledgments | xiii Sexuality and Orthodoxy: An Introduction | 1 Thomas Arentzen and Ashley M. Purpura PART I: THINKING THROUGH TRADITION 1 Relationality, Sexuality, and the Desire for God: Historical Resources | 23 Susan Ashbrook Harvey 2 Something New under the Sun: Sexualities, Same-Sex Relationships, and Orthodoxy | 46 Bryce E. Rich 3 Science, Homosexuality, and the Church | 66 Gayle Woloschak 4 Biblical Tradition and Same-Sex Relations: A Difficult Hermeneutical Path | 79 Ekaterini Tsalampouni PART II: CULTURAL AND PASTORAL CONTEXTS 5 Civil Marriage and Civil Union from an Ecclesial Perspective: The Case of the Orthodox Church of Greece | 105 Pantelis Kalaitzidis 6 Eastern Orthodoxy Identity and “Aggressive Liberalism”: Nontheological Aspects of the Confrontation | 144 Dmitry Uzlaner 7 Salvation and Same-Sex Relations: An Orthodox Response on the Decision by the Lutheran Church of Sweden | 154 Michael Hjälm 8 Homophobia in Orthodox Contexts: Sociopolitical Variables and Theological Strategies for Change | 172 Andrii Krawchuk 9 Meeting Michelle: Practical Theological Reflections on the Personhood of a Transgender Inmate | 192 Richard René PART III: THINKING WITH TRADITION 10 A Desire for All Is the Desire for God: “Sexual Orientation” in Light of Gregory of Nyssa’s Account of Gender, Desire, and the Soul’s Ascent to God | 215 Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou 11 Intersex People: Not Physical Mistakes but God’s Image | 235 Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer 12 A Theology of Sex | 247 Aristotle Papanikolaou 13 The Antinomic Eschatological Transfiguration of Christian Eros and Sexuality | 265 Haralambos Ventis 14 Sex, Love, and Politics: An (Un)Orthodox Theological Approach | 281 Davor Džalto 15 From Adam to Christ: From Male and Female to Being Human | 303 John Behr List of Contributors | 321 Index | 325
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Female Fetishism A New Look
Book SynopsisTackles the question of female fetishism and documents women's engagement in this form of sexuality. Covering a range of fetishistic practices, the authors suggest that Freudian phallocentrism has prevented analysts from seeing the evidence before their eyes.
£13.30
McGraw-Hill Education ISE Human Sexuality Self Society and Culture
Book SynopsisWith a thought-provoking appraisal of the human sexual experience, Human Sexuality: Self, Society, and Culture supports thinking critically about the contexts that shape sexuality and further highlights the role of sexuality in society and culture.Table of ContentsHuman Sexuality: Self, Society and CultureChapter 1: The Study of Human SexualitySexual Literacy-Become Sexually Literate-Sexual Well-BeingSexual Science—A Historical Perspective-The Medical Model of Sexuality-A New Approach to Sex Research-Sex Research Comes of Age-Sex and Social PolicyMethodology in the Study of Sexuality-Interdisciplinary Perspectives-Ethics of Sexual Research-Research Designs-Participatory Action ResearchHuman Sexual RightsChapter 2: Contexts of Sexuality: Culture, History and ReligionHuman Sexual Nature in Context-The Sexual Triangle: Species, Culture and Individual-Sexuality among the Bonobo-Human Sexual Nature as Expressed Through CultureSex Since the Beginning of Time-Prehistoric Sex and Communication-A Brief History of Sex and CivilizationSexual Cultures and Norms-Sexual Norms and Sexual Socialization-Sex-Approving and Sex-Disapproving Cultures-Sexual UnlearningSexuality and the Great World Religions-Sex, Religion and Reality-Sex in the World ReligionsSpirituality and Sexual Behavior in the United StatesReligion and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 3: Sexuality, Media and the InternetSex, Media and Pop culture-Sex in Pop Culture-Shared Sexual Images and Media-Popular Music and Sexual Attitudes-From Reality TV to Homemade VideoThe Internet and Sexual Literacy-Facebook, Twitter, and Sexting-Online Sexual Socialization-Sexuality and Risk OnlineVirtual Sex-Sexual Individuality in Virtual Time and Space-Online Boundaries-Online Romance, Dating and Hooking Up-Sexual Avatars and GamingAdult Sexual Content-Pornography and Its Changing Meaning-Adult Sexual Entertainment OnlineOnline Communities, Rights and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 4: Sexual Anatomy and PhysiologySexual AnatomyFemale Sexual Anatomy-External Female Sex Organs-Internal Female Sex Organs-Breasts and Breast Development-Variability in the Female Body-Female Genital MutilationFemale Sexual Physiology-The Endocrine System and Hormones-Pheromones and Their Role in Sexual Behavior-The Menstrual Cycle-MenopauseMale Sexual Physiology -External Male Sex Organs-Internal Male Sex Organs-Erection and Ejaculation-Variability in the Male Body-CircumcisionBodily Integrity Rights and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 5: Sexual Pleasure, Arousal, and ResponsePleasure, Culture, and Sexual Well-Being-Sexual Nature and Sexual Well-Being-Cultural Influences on Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Well-Being-Defining Your Personal Needs-Keeping a Sexual JournalSexual Arousal and Response-The Five Senses and Pleasure-Pheromones and Sexual Motivation-Sexual Excitement and Sexual Fantasy-Sexual Response Cycles-OrgasmSexual Techniques-Masturbation—Solitary and in Relationships-Kissing-Frequency of Sexual Activity-Other Intimate BehaviorsSexual Pleasure as a Human RightChapter 6: Taking Care of the Sexual BodyKnowing Our Own Body-Taking Responsibility for Our Own Sexual Health-Female Sexual Health-Male Sexual HealthSexually Transmitted Infections-Risk and Protective Factors for STIs-Sexual Risk Negotiation-Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Bacterial STIs-Parasitic STIs-Viral STIsSexual Well-Being and Innovation in STI PreventionChapter 7: ContraceptionContraception: History and Cultural Variations-Cross-Cultural Variations in Contraception-History of Contraceptives in the United StatesMethods of Contraception-Choosing a Method of Contraception: What to Consider-Methods That Protect Against Pregnancies and STIs-Methods That Protect Against Pregnancy But Not Against STIsContraception and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 8: Reproduction: Conception, Pregnancy, and ChildbirthParenting and Reproductive Decisions-Pronatalism-Family Leave-Considering ParenthoodEnsuring a Healthy Pregnancy-Preparing the Body for Pregnancy-Nutrition and Exercise-Sex During PregnancyContraception and Pregnancy-Cross-Cultural Ideas About Conception-Trimesters: The Developing Fetus and Changes for Women and Partners-Potential Problems During Pregnancy-Detecting Problems in PregnancyBirth and the Postpartum Period: what to Expect-Options for Giving Birth-Birth Assistance and Interventions-Making a Birth Plan-After the Birth, The Postpartum PeriodInfertility and Options-Assisted Reproductive Techniques-Other Options for Creating a FamilyAbortion-Defining Abortion-Safe Methods of Abortion-Unsafe Methods of Abortion-After an AbortionSexual Well-Being and Reproductive RightsChapter 9: Gender and Identity: Process, Roles, and CultureUnderstanding Gender Development and Context-Gender and Sex-Biological Process in the Development of Sex-Biological Sex Variations and IntersexualityGender Identity and Expression-Gender Identity—A Brief History-Biology and Gender Identity Development-Transgender—A New Identity-Transsexualism-AngrogynyGender Roles-Gender Roles Across Time and Cultures-Social Institutions and Gender Role Development-Sexism and Gender RolesGender Norms and Variance-Factors of Gender NonconformityGender Identity Rights and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 10: Sexual OrientationUnderstanding Sexual Orientation-The Spectrum of Sexual Orientation-The Gap Between Sexual Attraction and Behavior-Sources of Sexual Orientation-Sexual Socialization and Compulsory Heterosexuality-Sexual Individuality and Sexual OrientationVariations in Sexual Orientation-Same-Sex Behavior Variations Across Cultures-The Invention or Modern Gay and Lesbian Identity-The Modern LGBTQ Movement-10% Are Gay: Myth or Sexual Geography?-Bisexuality-African American Men Being on the Down Low-Men Who Have Sex With Men-Female Sexual Fluidity-Queer and QuestioningHomosexuality, Discrimination, and Stigma-Sexual Prejudice and Homophobia-Bullying and Internalized Homophobia-Hate CrimesComing Out and Sexual Well-Being-Social Acceptance and Being Out-Being Out—Steps Toward Well-Being-LGBTQ Family FormationSexual OrientationChapter 11: Sexuality in Childhood and AdolescenceSexual Development in Childhood and Adolescence-Biology, Family and Culture-Healthy Sexuality and Values in Childhood and Adolescence-Emotional Literacy in Young PeopleSexuality in Childhood-Infants as Sensual Beings-Childhood Curiosity, Masturbation, and Sexual PlaySexuality in Adolescence-The Magical Age of 10: Development of Desire-The Biological Changes of Adolescence: Pubertal Development-Romantic Relationships-Sexual Identity-Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence-STI’s, Pregnancy, and ContraceptionSexuality in Context: The Role of Institutions-Families-Peers-Media-Sexuality Education in Schools-Sexual Health in Europe and the United StatesYoung People’s Rights and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 12: Sexuality in Adulthood and Later LifeEarly Adulthood-Single Living-Casual Sex and What It Means-Cohabitation-Early Cohabitation and Sexual Well-BeingIntegrating Marriage and Sexual Well-Being-Variations in Marriage-Sex and Marriage-Extramarital Relationships-Divorce and Subsequent Marriages-Same-Sex MarriageSexuality and Aging Populations-Sex and Well-Being at Midlife-How Sex Shapes Mend and Women as They Age-Female Issues with Desire-Male Issues with Arousal-Aging, Disability, and Sexual Well-Being-Illness and Sexuality—Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Cancer-Elderhood and Healthy SexualitySexuality and Well-Being In Late LifeChapter 13: Attraction, Love, and CommunicationSexual Attraction-Theories of Sexual Desire and Attraction-Physical Attractiveness-Beauty and Sexiness-Chemistry and Attraction-Psychological Attraction-Biological Attraction-Same-Sex Attraction-Sexual ScriptsLove-Theories of Love-Types of Attachment-When Love Ends: The Dissolution of RelationshipsCommunication-Emotional Literacy: Communicating Your Needs-Sexual Language-Nonverbal Sexual Communication and Flirting-Sexual Self-Disclosure: To Reveal or Not to Reveal-Characteristics of Ineffective Communication-Improving Communication SkillsCommunication and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 14: Sexual Coercion and ResiliencySexual CoercionRape-Date Rape-Marital Rape-Prisoner Rape-Victim-Blame-Cultural Differences in Rape-Societies Prone to Rape-Perpetrators of Sexual Coercion-Survivors of Rape and Other Forms of CoercionChildhood Sexual Coercion-Incest-Child PornographyTeens and Adult Sexual Coercion-Sexual Harassment-Teen Dating AbuseSex Work and Sex Trafficking-Different Types of Sex Work-Sex Work and Rights-Sex TraffickingRecovery, Resiliency, and Sexual Well-BeingChapter 15: Extreme Sexuality and ParaphiliasChanges in Acceptability of Sexual Behavior-Variations in Mainstream Sexual Behavior-Cross-Cultural Extremes of Sexuality-Extreme Sexual Behaviors in Contemporary Society-Strip Clubs—Normal or Extreme?-Gender and Extreme Sexual Behavior-Kinky Sex-Sex Tourism and Extreme Sexuality-When Extreme Sexual Behavior Becomes Impu lsiveParaphilias-Clinical Criteria of Paraphilias-Categories of Paraphilias-Popular Culture and Media Influence-Origins of Paraphilias-Treatment of ParaphiliasSexual Novelty and Healthy Sexuality-Sex Toys, Vibrators, and Related Sexual EnhancementsMainstreaming of Pornography and Sexual Well-Being
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Lifes Little Instruction Book
Book SynopsisWhen life becomes complicated, it’s time to get back to the basics. Originally written by Jack Brown as a going-away-to-college gift for his son Adam, Life’s Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life offers hundreds of captivating insights, uplifting inspiration, heartfelt humor, and thoughtful reminders.The Life’s Little Instruction Book series has sold more than ten million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages—a true example of a giftable book that keeps on giving.Giving people of all generations permission to live a well-loved life, readers will delight in the sweet simplicity of entries that inspire them to: Sing in the shower. Watch a sunrise at least once a year. Drink champagne for no reason at all.
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Pan Macmillan What Belongs to You
Book SynopsisGarth Greenwell is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His novella Mitko won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. He is the author of What Belongs to You, Cleanness and Small Rain.Trade ReviewWhat Belongs to You stands naturally alongside the great works of compromised sexual obsession such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice . . . we are dealing with a writer who deserves his plaudits . . . I found myself unable to stop reading . . . Headily accomplished . . . an essential work of our time * Daily Telegraph ***** *Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald . . . spellbinding . . . a novel of rejection and disgust, displacement and transcendence . . . I found myself trembling as I read it * Evening Standard *A refreshingly slim, subdued and contemplative piece of work . . . Greenwell writes in long, consummately nuanced sentences, strung with insights and soaked in melancholy . . . What Belongs to You is an uncommonly sensitive, intelligent and poignant novel * Sunday Times *I had thought of Hollinghurst as I read What Belongs to You, Greenwell's astonishingly assured debut novel, but questioned whether the parallel came to mind because both writers create vivid, enclosed worlds filled with ambiguous and shifting relationships between gay men. In fact, though, the greater similarity lies in their ability to blend a lyrical prose - the prose of longing, missed connections, grasped pleasures - with an almost uncanny depth of observation . . . [The] middle section [is] a masterful study in alienation and escape . . . Like the writers he admires, WG Sebald, Thomas Bernhard and Javier Marías, he is drawn to the idea of a body of work that seems as though it is all one book, or, as with Sebald in particular, a territory in which the reader wanders. It is perhaps too soon to say precisely what Greenwell's own fictional territory will look like - but even this early on, the landscape looks too riveting to miss -- Alex Clark * Guardian *A rich, important debut, an instant classic to be savored by all lovers of serious fiction because of, not despite, its subject: a gay man's endeavor to fathom his own heart -- Aaron Hamburger * New York Times Book Review *Brilliantly self-aware . . . Greenwell's novel impresses for many reasons, not least of which is how perfectly it fulfills its intentions. But it gains a different power from its uneasy atmosphere of psychic instability, of confession and penitence, of difficult forces acknowledged but barely mastered and beyond the conscious control of even this gifted novelist -- James Wood * New Yorker *With What Belongs to You American literature is richer by one masterpiece. The character Mitko is unforgettable, as all myths are. He reigns at the heart of this book, surrounded by the magic flames of desire -- Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own StoryA powerful novel from a writer who seems destined to produce fine work in the years ahead, describing both the condition of loneliness and the insistent cravings of the flesh with precision and sensitivity. [Greenwell] never seeks to manipulate our emotions, but creates a narrative voice so enigmatic that one feels both affection and disdain for him simultaneously. Too often in fiction it becomes clear how an author wants the reader to feel, but Greenwell's character is too complex a creation for any easy judgments. And that is what will make both him and this novel particularly memorable -- John Boyne * Irish Times *In his spare, haunting novel, Garth Greenwell takes a well-known narrative and finds new meaning in it. What Belongs to You is a searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire, the impossibility of salvation, and the forces of shame, guilt, and yearning that often accompany love, rendered in language as beautiful and vivid as poetry -- Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little LifeThere's a particular joy in reading Garth Greenwell, in having that feeling, precious and rare: here is the real thing -- Claire Messud, author of The Woman UpstairsIn Garth Greenwell's incandescent first novel, What Belongs to You, an old tale is made new, and made punishing. . . Mr. Greenwell writes long sentences, pinned at the joints by semicolons, that push forward like confidently searching vines. There's suppleness and mastery in his voice. He seems to have an inborn ability to cast a spell . . . A writer who opens chasms rather than builds substandard bridges . . . A subtle observer of human interactions. He underscores the way expressions of love are nearly always, in part, performance -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *Exquisite . . . Stylistically, Greenwell owes more to Sebald than to Nabokov . . . One of the great pleasures of his prose is how profoundly thoughtful it is, even when considering physical needs and passions. This is emotion recollected in tranquillity, or rather in melancholy. There is an almost visceral disjuncture between places and actions that are grubby, even squalid, and the delicacy of the lens through which they're seen. Yet the effect, paradoxically, is one of almost pure emotion -- Damon Galgut * The Nation *One of the few novels I've read which feels like it offers an authentic account of what growing up is like for gay people in western societies . . . Greenwell's novel is at its most affecting when subtly pushing readers to examine their own attitudes and motives . . . By illuminating the dividing lines in our unequal world, Greenwell's novel challenges us to think about privilege, especially our own . . . What Belongs To You presents a challenging and refreshing vision of gay life. It's an original addition to the line of fiction which, from Henry James to Ben Lerner, chronicles the lives of Americans in Europe. Greenwell painstakingly captures desire in all its complex, double-edged intensity . . . Erotic holding, emotional withholding and the question of who holds power in a relationship are all examined in a work which gripped me all the way to its sad and beautiful ending * Independent on Sunday *Garth Greenwell's first novel is gilded with the kind of praise that debut writers might never dare to imagine for themselves . . . none of it is hyperbole. The praise is earned . . . first, Greenwell's abundant gifts: the language, Hanya Yanagihara says on the book sticker, is "as beautiful and vivid as poetry". To speak in such an approximation, though, might sell it short. Little here is metaphoric though no word is spare. Every utterance seems imbued with thought that is deep and beautiful in its clarity -- Arifa Akbar * Independent *He imbues his prose with a bewitching combination of ethereal somnolence, luminosity and brutal rumination. His sentences are carefully balanced . . . This command of form can also be felt in the larger structures of the novel: in the rhythm and tone of its paragraphs, and in the cumulative music of the book as a whole * Times Literary Supplement *[A novel] about the lasting damage that a loveless childhood can inflict . . . The last sequence includes some marvellous vignettes of loving kindness between parents and children, but they are presented as something that only other people can ever have, and the final pages of the book are memorable for their bleak and desperate sadness -- Neil Bartlett * Guardian *Heartfelt . . . [A] touching, desperately sad story. And the character of Mitko, so vivid yet elusive, explains why What Belongs to You is such a promising debut * The Times *Contains both psychological depth and moments of breathtaking drama * Observer *This astonishing debut novel's portrait of compromised lust holds its own against classics like Lolita * Sunday Telegraph *A slender and achingly beautifully novel full of the gloriously messy pain of unrequited and inappropriate love -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * Stylist *A truly stunning debut . . . a masterpiece . . . A literary star is born -- Janice Forsyth * BBC Radio Scotland *The American book changing gay literature * Attitude *A slim novel, yes, but a slim masterpiece * Monocle24 *I was blown away by [What Belongs to You] -- Farhana Gani * the Reader’s Digest podcast *Exquisite . . . Risk and desire are the 'coterminous' elements of the book's style as well as its action, terms of engagement Greenwell makes plain from its first page . . . Breathtaking . . . It's hard to tell at times whether the narrator is the innocent abroad or an American abroad among innocents. Greenwell's insight is that the destruction of innocence is a process that never halts -- Christian Lorentzen * New York Magazine *Outstanding in just about every way a novel could be * Los Angeles Times *The strength of this slim book is the vibrant, heartbreaking character Mr Greenwell creates in Mitko: object of the unnamed narrator's desire, fear, obsession and, ultimately, pity. . . Mr Greenwell offers a tender portrait of the longing for connection and acceptance that inhabits us all * The Economist *Although this is a debut novel, expectations have been running high. What Belongs to You grew from a lauded novella called Mitko. And Greenwell's literary criticism in the New Yorker and the Atlantic demonstrates an unusually keen and insightful mind. That promise is fully realized here in the dark magic of these pages . . . This is a novel of aggressive introspection, but Greenwell writes with such candor and psychological precision that the effect is oddly propulsive . . . In the end, a novel like this can't offer any resolution except its perfect articulation of despair that anyone with a heart will hear -- Ron Charles * The Washington Post *Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You is the Great Gay Novel for our times . . . an astonishing debut * New Republic *Garth Greenwell starts 2016 on a high note with What Belongs to You, a novel that can be called truly great. The narrative follows an American teacher in Bulgaria and his relationship with a young hustler named Mitko, whom he pays for sex. But the interaction doesn't end there as you might expect, and neither does the exploration of desire, which Greenwell orchestrates brilliantly. Plumbing the depths of sexuality and psychology, What Belongs to You is lingering and haunting * ELLE.com *What Belongs To You comes to feel, in the end, like a great enactment of an infatuation, exciting and appalling by turns-a brilliantly observed account of an attempt to make another person entirely yours, to subsume them within your story * Guernica *At just about two hundred pages, What Belongs to You feels at once expansive and instantaneous, and its lyrical use of time is one of its most striking and immersive elements. In any given section, every moment of the book is present. . . the novel recalls works like Rachel Cusk's Outline, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, and Teju Cole's Open City; and, of course, it descends stylistically from Sebald . . . What Belongs to You is a haunting, gorgeous, and fierce debut, capturing desire in every sentence - holding the space of what we long for and what can never truly be ours * The Rumpus *Garth Greenwell's debut novel What Belongs to You aches with desire and tenderness: an American professor in Bulgaria encounters a male prostitute named Mitko in a public bathroom, beginning a complex sexual relationship between the two that will have enormous ramifications for them both. Lyrical and haunting, What Belongs to You is a rumination on lust, shame, violence, and the ways in which sexual and emotional pain stays with and shapes us * Buzzfeed *Thomas Mann, Henry James and Marcel Proust are Greenwell's strongest forebears, with James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as equally discernible inspirations. . .Garth Greenwell's writing is alive to the foreign and the unknown; he opens our eyes to worlds we had not realized existed alongside our own. Even the landscape of Bulgaria, one of the poorest and least-known countries in Europe, is made vivid and vibrant. . .What Belongs to You make visible all the painful and beautiful facets of human life and human love * New Republic *Reaches, with elegance, with poetry, into what it means to be a human. . .I rarely feel such a connection with a book: I am sure many others will too, after reading this * Bookseller *[What Belongs to You is] the first great novel of 2016 . . . The book is brilliantly structured . . . [and] Greenwell's ability to parse the complex emotional push-and-pull between the two men is incredible, and rivals books like Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life or Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. His images are spot-on . . . And in Mitko, Greenwell has created one of the best characters in recent years. What Belongs to You is a great tragedy, and Greenwell is a great writer. I'll be reading whatever he writes next." -- Gabe Habash * Publishers Weekly (Staff Pick) *This is a project of rare discernment and beauty, and it is not to be missed. A luminous, searing exploration of desire, alienation, and the powerful tattoo of the past * Kirkus *There's a gorgeousness to Greenwell's prose . . . This is a heart-breaking, important piece of work, which emphasises to us all how much our lives are made (and unmade) by how our bodies collide (or don't) with the bodies of others -- Andrew Macmillan * Next Review *Slim, eloquent and emotionally wrenching, this debut novel is a superb evocation of that curious state known as love . . . Greenwell's shimmering novel recounts an age-old story with such toughness and tenderness as to make it seem new: and that is an art in itself * RTÉ Guide *What Belongs To You is a very accomplished novel from an exceptionally skilled writer. It brilliantly deconstructs the expat experience, modern sexual mores, and cross-continental cultural divides, echoing one of Greenwell's go-to novels growing up, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Undoubtedly one of the novels of the year, Greenwell is a writer to watch -- Stephen Boylan * GCN *Utterly absorbing . . . powerful . . . For its mastery of tone and its expert drawing together of a number of disparate elements, Greenwell's narrative feat is utterly remarkable and the final ten pages amount to one of the most moving passages this reviewer has ever read in contemporary fiction * RTÉ *Great portrayal of obsession . . . it is in his prose that Greenwell displays his mastery * New Statesman *Masterly début . . . a melancholy but unwavering account of desire and its aetiologies . . . Mitko is one of the the most unforgettable characters in contemporary gay literature . . . Greenwell's rare invocation of desire's inexorable spell propels you right to the end * Australian Book Review *First-rate debut . . . Greenwell's entranced sentences, Sebald-like in their gravity and evocativeness, take us back to the old days * Sydney Morning Herald *What Belongs to You is a rich and sensually detailed exploration of love and obsession. A haunting, beautiful novel -- Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary WomanWhat Belongs to You is a beautiful, moving, sensual novel. It announces Garth Greenwell as one of America's most exciting young writers -- Jonathan Lee, author of High DiveIn prose that is at once refined and lavish - the quiet dignity and control of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day coupled with the agonized passion and sexual tension of André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name - Garth Greenwell takes us deep inside a specific Bulgarian subculture to examine the universal: the disparity between the uninhibited lives we desire and the bearable lives we choose. I began reading What Belongs to You in admiration; I ended in tears. An exquisite debut -- Jamie Quatro, author of I Want to Show You MoreGarth Greenwell is a unique, and uniquely welcome, voice in American letters. The consciousness on display in his debut novel is so rich and restless that it seems practically inexhaustible: a consciousness that rises to heights of both passion and intellect - of passion harnessed by intellect. What Belongs to You very much seems to me not only a great novel but the first installment in a great body of work -- Kevin Brockmeier, author of The IlluminationI am in awe of this book. So intimate, so honest, so exquisitely crafted, it broke my heart and left me in tears. It showed me a Bulgaria both familiar and entirely novel, rendered with candor and deep affection, and characters, whose plight and desires at first seemed foreign yet, before long, so dear. Garth Greenwell has written a marvelous book, an important book - one whose impact is as much artistic as it is cultural. What Belongs to You expands not simply the world of letters, but also our collective knowledge of what it means to be human -- Miroslav Penkov, author of East of the WestWhat Belongs To You is a short novel, but Garth Greenwell's sentences are expansive and revelatory and poetic. Greenwell juxtaposes the narrator's experiences in an unprogressive, formerly Communist country still recovering its infrastructure, to the narrator's own childhood, growing up gay and closeted in the oppressive American South . . . a lovely meditation on fear and acceptance, desire and oppression, and the disparity between two cultures * Esquire *Beautifully rendered, quietly obsessive. A Sebaldian account of a gay American in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the bruising experience of his sexuality being revealed to his father when he was younger -- Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me GoneI was blown away by it . . . beautiful -- Helen Lewis * Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4 *Absolutely astonishing . . . a tour de force . . . remarkable -- Christopher Frayling * Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4 *Beautifully written . . . a galvanising read as Greenwell constantly dissects his own feelings, thoughts and motives, sieving through desire and need with intelligence, insight and candour . . . Greenwell pulls off a mesmeric read . . . a finely wrought and compelling artifact of both beauty and truth. * New Zealand Listener *I devoured it, in a single sitting . . . I was completely spellbound by it . . . What Belongs To You is concentrated brilliance, a short novel that packs an emotive and thought provoking punch. I urge you all to read it * Savidge Reads *The literary sensation . . . a brilliant tale of gay desire and class division that is exquisitely phrased * i *What Belongs To You is an exquisite triptych * Vulture *An astonishing portrait of compromised lust, set in ex-Soviet Sofia, this debut novel holds its own against classics such as Lolita * Telegraph *I sat down to read a chapter of What Belongs to You one afternoon and ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting, hunched over my kitchen table until dark. Garth Greenwell's devastatingly beautiful novel about a gay American expat in Bulgaria and his on-again, off-again relationship with a sex worker named Mitko has been one of the year's breakout hits, and for good reason. It's a virtuosic, tender exploration of loneliness and desire, with sentences so breathtaking you'll find yourself returning to them over and over again * NPR *I read this book when it first emerged and I will keep reading it every year of my life. It is a secular desire bible. It is desire alive. -- Lidia Yuknavitch * The Millions *The book I wish I’d written? Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You. It does in its few perfect pages everything – absolutely everything – that I aspire to do with words. -- Taiye Selasi * Guardian *Garth Greenwell’s book has the power and infinite beauty of an ancient tragedy: on every page, passion, obsession, and the struggle for freedom collide with the inevitability of fate and the violence of society. At the same time, it’s a radically contemporary novel, which overwhelmed me as much with its language – rhythmic, incantatory, visceral – as with the way it takes the subjects of memory, escape, desire, and melancholy, and makes them new. What Belongs to You is an essential book. -- Édouard LouisA spare, spellbinding account . . . written in gorgeously limpid prose . . . fearless and nerve-racking autobiographical fiction, incandescent with yearning, rage and rejection . . . one of the most heartbreaking accounts of pained desire that I can remember reading . . . worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and WG Sebald -- Johanna Thomas-Corr, Observer
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Zone Books Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
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BenBella Books Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for
Book SynopsisThe author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time returns with an updated guide for today's generation. Two decades ago, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus revolutionized the way we thought about love and partnership. John Gray's work has helped countless readers improve and even save their relationships. But as society evolves, relationships do, too. It's time to move beyond Mars and Venus, toward a new relationship model for modern couples. Today, men and women are no longer trapped by rigid societal roles. Now more than ever, we have the freedom to be our authentic selves. Women can access their masculine side, and men can embrace their feminine side. This new freedom is a good thing, but it also brings new challenges. Men and women still need the right tools and skills to help build stronger relation- ships. While previous generations sought "role mate" relationships, based on the more rigid gender roles of the time, today's couples need a new kind of relationship: a "soul mate" relationship. These more emotionally satisfying relationships require a deeper understanding of our partners' individual needs. In Beyond Mars and Venus, Gray teaches you how to strengthen your bond and grow in love together, so you and your loved one can meet each other's needs in the best way possible, bringing you lasting happiness and a fulfilling partnership.Trade Review"No one delivers greater wisdom about relationships than John Gray. In Beyond Mars and Venus, he provides much-needed guidance as to how to navigate the path of love in complicated times like these." Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A true expert understands that as times change, tried-and-true methods must be reexamined and updated. John Gray not only embraces the unique challenges in modern relationships, but his tools and wisdom are every bit as helpful today as ever." Jack Canfield, New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series "Twenty years after his earth-shaking Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray has opened up a whole new universe of helpful relationship advice in Beyond Mars and Venus. His explanation of love and intimacy in the 21st century will rock your world." Harvey Mackay, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive "Leave it to John Gray, whose creativity framed gender differences in planetary terms as Mars and Venus, starting a never-ending conversation about the differences between men and women, to go Beyond Mars and Venus and make the discussion relevant for contemporary couples. All couples, traditional or modern, will be informed by this perceptive thinker about relationships." Harville Hendrix, PhD and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, authors of Getting the Love You Want and Making Marriage Simple "How do we achieve true love in today's stressful, chaotic world? . . . Becoming comfortable in our new roles allows for each of us to be seen, heard, and affectionate with one another. Being able to express these inherent sides of ourselves clearly determines our strengths and need for stress management and choosing balance. Greater intimacy and deep love are the gifts. I love this book." Suzanne Somers "John Gray's famous book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has changed countless lives for the better (including mine) and has helped so many people live in greater happiness. This new guide offers tools and wisdom that are as helpful today as ever." Marci Shimoff, professional speaker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason, and coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul "John Gray provides brilliant guidance for the rapidly changing state of gender roles in our relationships. Beyond Mars and Venus is required reading for all couples who are serious about growing and thriving in love together." Arielle Ford, author of Turn Your Mate into Your SoulmateTable of ContentsIntroduction Beyond Mars and Venus From Role Mate to Soul Mate Your Unique Self Differences Attract and Create Lasting Passion Testosterone Is from Mars Estrogen Is from Venus The Risks of Taking Hormones Women, Hormones, and Happiness You Time, Me Time, We Time She Needs to Be Heard and He Needs to Be Appreciated His Love Needs, Her Love Needs Mars and Venus Come Together The Complaint-Free Relationship Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author
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Simon & Schuster Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The
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Open University Press Therapeutic Perspectives On Working With Lesbian
Book SynopsisFollowing the success of Pink Therapy (1996 Open University Press) as a practical guide for therapists, counsellors and others in related professions working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients in affirmative ways, this volume is the first to address how this can be approached from ten of the major therapeutic perspectives. Each approach is discussed with regard to its historical and theoretical relationship to these client groups and how the approach can be beneficial or negative. Guidelines for using the perspective supportively or practically are given, along with references for further study. The volume marks an important step in the dialogue between theoretical approaches and in the future development of, and debate about, these increasingly important fields in contemporary therapy.Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsForewordIntroductionAnalytical psychologyCognitive-behavioural therapyExistential-phenomenological therapyGay, lesbian and bisexual therapy and its supervisionNeuro-linguistic programmingPerson-centred therapyPsychoanalytic therapyPsychosynthesisSocial constructionist and systemic therapyTransactional analysisIndex.
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Mage Publishers Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran
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Columbia University Press Sexuality
Book SynopsisMichel Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on sexuality for the first time in English.Trade ReviewWhat comes to my mind when traversing these extraordinary lectures is a variant of the famous motto: 'same is another.' Foucault claimed that he was writing texts to depart from himself. And he succeeded. But in doing so he delved deeper and deeper into his own truth. And into ours. -- Étienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political PhilosophyThis volume of Foucault’s early lectures on sexuality offers readers a chance to follow the ebbs and flows of theoretical thought as ideas take shape under very specific historical conditions. With a brilliant introduction by Bernard Harcourt guiding the way, the lectures gathered here provide deep insight into the braided structures of power, knowledge and desire that continue to regulate bodies. At the same time, this deep archive provides opportunities for linking to other moments of rebellion, opposition and, even, abolition. -- Jack Halberstam, author of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire and Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender VariationFinally published in English, these 1964 and 1969 early lectures of Foucault, given at a time when homosexuality was still considered a clinical pathology and a crime and when the notion of gender was not yet a leverage of political emancipation for feminist and trans movements, allow us to grasp the archeology of contemporary queer and trans critical languages. We discover a young Foucault thinking sexuality anew, using Sade, Bataille, Restif de la Bretonne, or Fourier, and fighting with Freud, Marx, Melanie Klein, Marcuse, or Wilhelm Reich in order to pierce an academic, political, and discursive field dominated by epistemic violence against sexual minorities. A necessary, controversial, and fascinating reading to understand not only Foucault’s critical project but also the way in which different discourses on desire, pleasure, and sexuality shape our present. -- Paul B. Preciado, author of Countersexual ManifestoThese lectures offer a really important insight into Foucault’s work in the 1960s on the question of sexuality—a topic on which his more famous works come from the 1970s and 1980s. This volume shows how he proposed a study of scientific knowledge about sexuality from biology to psychology, with some explicit engagement with figures who are only discussed obliquely elsewhere. Graham Burchell is the most important translator of Foucault’s work into English, and Anglophone readers remain much in his debt. -- Stuart Elden, author of The Early FoucaultThis volume will be of interest to all scholars working on sexuality across many disciplines, particularly those whose study is informed by Foucauldian analyses of power, knowledge, and desire. * Modern Language Review *Will be invaluable to readers interested in any aspect of Foucault's intellectual development. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword, by Bernard E. HarcourtForeword to the French Edition, by François EwaldRules for Editing the Texts, by Claude-Olivier DoronTranslator’s Note, by Graham BurchellAbbreviationsPart I. Sexuality: Lectures at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1964)Lecture 1. IntroductionLecture 2. The Scientific Knowledge of SexualityLecture 3. Sexual BehaviorLecture 4. The PerversionsLecture 5. Infantile SexualityPart II. The Discourse of Sexuality: Lectures at the University of Vincennes (1969)Lecture 1. The Discourse of SexualityLecture 2. The Transformations of the Eighteenth CenturyAppendix to Lecture 2Lecture 3. The Discourse of Sexuality (3)Appendix to Lecture 3Lecture 4. Legal Forms of Marriage Up to the Civil CodeLecture 5. Epistemologization of SexualityLecture 6. The Biology of SexualityLecture 7. Sexual UtopiaAppendix to Lecture 7Appendix. Extract from Green Notebook no. 8, September 1969Course Context, by Claude-Olivier Doron Sexuality: Course at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1964) The Discourse of Sexuality: Course at the University of Vincennes (1969)Detailed ContentsIndex of NotionsIndex of Names
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Hogrefe Publishing Affirmative Counseling for Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients
Book SynopsisA how-to guide to affirmative counseling with transgender clients * Presents the best evidence-based care * Instructions for strategies to improve inclusivity * Illustrated with case studies * Printable tools for clinical use.Trade ReviewThis book is a comprehensive review of treatment modalities, testing protocols, and theories for trans and gender diverse populations. The material, case studies, and downloadable resources are infinitely valuable to those in all levels of clinical practice. This book matters. It should be a part of all professional libraries – to improve the work of clinicians as they interact with gender diverse and trans populations.;Charla S. Waxman, BS, MBA, EdD, Lake Behavioral Hospital, Waukegan, IL, in Doody’s Reviews (January 2023)Table of Contents1 Description 1.1 Terminology 1.2 Definitions 1.3 Overview 1.3.1 Indigenous People 1.3.2 Medical Model 1.3.3 Transgender Movement 1.3.4 Nonbinary Movement 1.4 Gatekeeping 2 Theories and Models 2.1 Minority Stress Theory 2.1.1 Challenges With Minority Stress and Trans People 2.1.2 Suicide and Minority Stress 2.2 Gender Dysphoria 2.2.1 Reclassifying Gender Dysphoria 2.3 Medical Necessity 2.4 Informed Consent 2.5 Harm Reduction 2.6 Shaping the Therapeutic Dialogue 2.6.1 Introducing Yourself With Your Pronoun( s) 2.6.2 Presentation of Experience and Training 2.6.3 Assumptions About What an Identity Term Means for the Client topic? 2.6.4 Trans Client Fluidity in Their Gender and Sexuality 2.6.5 Assumptions About Meaning of Transition for a Client 2.6.6 How to Respond When You Make a Mistake 2.6.7 Understanding Diverse Experiences Gender 2.6.8 Reviews of Client Experience in Your Practice 2.6.9 Knowledge of Local Resources 2.7 Shaping the Therapeutic Relationship 2.7.1 Grief 2.7.2 Suicide and Trans People 2.7.3 Nonsuicidal Self-injury 2.7.4 Reasonably Well-Controlled Mental Health 3 Assessment and Treatment Indications 3.1 Assessment 3.1.1 Screening Tools 3.1.2 Outcome Measures 3.1.3 Critique of Personality Assessment Tools 3.1.4 Progress Monitoring Tools 3.1.5 Measures Designed for Trans Clients 3.1.6 Caution When Interpreting Results 4 Treatment 4.1 Method of Treatment 4.1.1 Conversion Therapy 4.1.2 Specific Clinical Concerns 4.2 Efficacy and Prognosis 4.2.1 Affirmative Practice 4.2.2 Therapeutic 4.3 Variations of the Method: Letter Writing 4.4 Problems in Carrying Out Treatments 4.4.1 Trauma 4.4.2 Trans Clients in Rural Locations 4.4.3 Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria 4.4.4 Autism Spectrum Disorder in Trans People 4.4.5 Co-Occurring Medical Concerns 4.4.6 Persistence, Insistence, and Consistence 4.5 Multicultural Issues 4.5.1 Intersectionality 4.6 Importance of Interrogating Your Gender 5 Case Vignette 5.1 Assessing Eliza's Need for Support 6 Further Reading 7 References 8 Appendix: Tools and Resources
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Inner City Books The Sacred Prostitute
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Duke University Press Getting Medieval
Book SynopsisExplores how particular sexual practices and identifications were normalized while others were outlawed in medieval England. This work demonstrates how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to contemporary issues in cultural studies. It also attempts to make connections between past and present cultures.Trade Review“Getting Medieval is an examination of how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England has influenced Western sensibilities and sexualities today. Chaucer, Pulp Fiction, and historical documents have, not surprisingly, small degrees of separation between them, and this exhaustively researched and detailed book discusses every line which can be drawn between each.” - Lambda Book Report“[B]reathtaking. . . . Getting Medieval is clearly not your average book of medieval literary or cultural criticism, and it’s not intended only for specialists in those fields. . . [It] is a startling attempt to use aspects of medieval life and thought to make sense of the world we inhabit today and, conversely, to explore new meanings in what we know (or think we know) about life in the Middle Ages. . . . The power of Getting Medieval comes from Dinshaw’s ability—conveyed in engaging, witty, persuasive prose—to shock us into questioning the present day’s notions about the past.” - Michael Bronski, The Gay and Lesbian Review“Getting Medieval is not just for medievalists. . . . Dinshaw’s very personal, highly specific and precisely targeted vision should stimulate consideration of the meanings assigned and assignable to the medieval in the postmodern world.” - Wendy Scase, Times Higher Education Supplement“[A] tour de force in its yoking together of disparate subjects, its imaginative use of small examples to support grand hypotheses, and its exposition of current prejudices. It is a queer patchwork of past and present, marked by numerous subjeadings and a swift movement between a relatively small number of medieval instances, a selection of theoretical works, and personal discussion. It is an intelligent, consciously perverse book – one that would be difficult to imitate successfully and perhaps requires or hopes to create a consciously perverse reader.” - Corinne Saunders, Medium Aevum"Getting Medieval virtually overflows with information and ideas. . . . [Dinshaw] skillfully interweaves dozens of texts. . . . She provides rich social and historical contextualization. . . . Dinshaw makes an impassioned, well-buttressed argument for the importance of locating sexual nonconformists hidden within historical interstices." - Kathy Sisson, Sexuality and Culture“A wonderful book. The things addressed are so heterogeneous—their sheer distance from one another is a kind of elegance.”—Robert Glück, San Francisco State University“Carolyn Dinshaw is preeminent for the subtlety with which she discloses gendered turmoil in historically situated texts. I can hardly wait to have Getting Medieval on my own shelf, to have its adventurous deployments of ‘the touch of the queer’ available for frequent consultation.”—Paul Strohm, University of Oxford“This book has a beautiful range, both among premodern English discourses and in postmodern theory, and Dinshaw really and truly does make these different textualities touch.”—Louise O. Fradenburg, University of California, Santa Barbara“Getting Medieval is an examination of how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England has influenced Western sensibilities and sexualities today. Chaucer, Pulp Fiction, and historical documents have, not surprisingly, small degrees of separation between them, and this exhaustively researched and detailed book discusses every line which can be drawn between each.” * Lambda Book Report *“Getting Medieval is not just for medievalists. . . . Dinshaw’s very personal, highly specific and precisely targeted vision should stimulate consideration of the meanings assigned and assignable to the medieval in the postmodern world.” -- Wendy Scase * Times Higher Education *“[A] tour de force in its yoking together of disparate subjects, its imaginative use of small examples to support grand hypotheses, and its exposition of current prejudices. It is a queer patchwork of past and present, marked by numerous subjeadings and a swift movement between a relatively small number of medieval instances, a selection of theoretical works, and personal discussion. It is an intelligent, consciously perverse book – one that would be difficult to imitate successfully and perhaps requires or hopes to create a consciously perverse reader.” -- Corinne Saunders * Medium Aevum *“[B]reathtaking. . . . Getting Medieval is clearly not your average book of medieval literary or cultural criticism, and it’s not intended only for specialists in those fields. . . [It] is a startling attempt to use aspects of medieval life and thought to make sense of the world we inhabit today and, conversely, to explore new meanings in what we know (or think we know) about life in the Middle Ages. . . . The power of Getting Medieval comes from Dinshaw’s ability—conveyed in engaging, witty, persuasive prose—to shock us into questioning the present day’s notions about the past.” -- Michael Bronski * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Getting Medieval virtually overflows with information and ideas. . . . [Dinshaw] skillfully interweaves dozens of texts. . . . She provides rich social and historical contextualization. . . . Dinshaw makes an impassioned, well-buttressed argument for the importance of locating sexual nonconformists hidden within historical interstices." -- Kathy Sisson * Sexuality & Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction:Touching the Past 1 Chapter OneIt Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers 55 Chapter TwoGood Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault 100 Chapter ThreeMargery Kempe Answers Back 143 CodaGetting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Foucault, and the Use of the Past 183 Notes 207 Bibliography 305 Index 337
£27.90
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Resurrecting Sex
Book SynopsisIn this remarkable sexual health and wellness 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 who are struggling with sexual difficulties.Uplifting, provocative, and heartfelt, the book is organized into four sections: A crash course in sex Expl
£15.29
The University of Chicago Press The Language of Sex Five Voices from Northern
Book SynopsisThis study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. Views on aspects including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation are discussed.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Libidinal Currents Sexuality and the Shaping of
Book SynopsisArgues that modern fiction, from Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, surges with libidinal currents. This work maps the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, and constructs a model for interpreting sexuality.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Beyond Sexuality
Book SynopsisCombining psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a respect for the variability of sexual identities, this work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Dean develops a reading of Lacan that brings out queer tensions and productive incoherencies.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Anxious Pleasures The Sexual Lives of an
Book SynopsisGood fish get dull but sex is always fun. So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate ritualsespecially those practiced by the men in their secret societiesthe Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. If we look carefully, writes Gregor, we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazonian people. The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Sambia Sexual Culture Essays from the Field
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation; and the creation of a third sex in nature and culture.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Studying Human Behavior
Book SynopsisDeals with the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of nature versus nurture. The author dissects five approaches to the study of behavior - quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods.Trade Review"Helen E. Longino presents many insights about different general methods, assumptions, research goals, and the importance of definitions in researching behavior. I know of no other book that covers such diverse approaches." (Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Studying Human Behavior
Book SynopsisDeals with the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of nature versus nurture. The author dissects five approaches to the study of behavior - quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods.Trade Review"Helen E. Longino presents many insights about different general methods, assumptions, research goals, and the importance of definitions in researching behavior. I know of no other book that covers such diverse approaches." (Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh)"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press The Passion Book
Book SynopsisThe Passion Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (19031951).
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Invisible Lives
Book SynopsisThrough combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Memas House Mexico City On Transvestites Queens
Book SynopsisMema lives in a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her house is a sanctuary for young homosexual men and transvestites. Mema is an AIDS educator and leader of the group. This study follows the transvestites in their daily activities, and analyzes their complicated relations.
£26.60
