Sex and sexuality: advice, topics and issues Books

Book SynopsisMyrna Lamb, radio talk show host and astrologer extraordinaire, reveals here - sign by sign - which partnerships truly complement each other and which ones are likely to burn out. Plus, she backs up her astrological insights with the explicit, real-life confessions of the 1,200 men and women she surveyed regarding their sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. Respondents relate in their own words, their sexual preferences and admit their deepest desires and most delicious sensual memories.This is a book that entertains and enlightens, will make you laugh out loud and maybe blush. The survey responses are astonishingly candid - and incredibly consistent to each sign of the zodiac.THE ASTROLOGY OF GREAT GAY SEX includes a copy of the sex survey for you and your partner to discover - and fulfil - your own fantasies.

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Book SynopsisLegendary porn star Nina Hartley's guide to thrilling, liberating, mind-blowing, soul-fulfilling, and intimacy-building sex! Witty, smart, and frankly provocative, Nina Hartley knows sex. As a sex performer, sexual adventurer, and sex educator, she's done the fieldwork and has taken extensive notes. Now, she's ready to share her research. Let's just say that she's had all the sex-the good, the bad, and the indifferent-so you won't necessarily have to! Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex is for sexual pioneers and enthusiastic novices. Unabashedly erotic, the book covers a lot of territory, allowing readers to sample the whole smorgasbord or just nibble at what they see as the choicest bits. To start things off, Nina includes explicitly detailed chapters on foreplay, oral sex, masturbation, toys, and games. Sexual adventurers (and voyeurs) will find chapters on swinging, three-ways, anal sex, erotic domination, sensual submission, and much more. Nina is a strong advocate of safe sex, physically and emotionally, and she helps readers establish personal ground rules. But as a sexual liberationist and a feminist, her core belief is that, between consenting adults, all sexual behaviors are a matter of personal choice. Whether you're trying to reignite the passion with a longtime spouse, or explore new terrain with a new lover, Nina offers a variety of ideas to achieve exhilarating, deeply satisfying, intimate, and profoundly liberating sex.

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Book Synopsis***FINALIST, USA Best Books 2010 Awards – Spirituality & Self-Help: Relationships The quest for lasting love is one of life’s essential pursuits, in some ways the most essential. But it’s also a quest that’s impossible to separate from spiritual and sexual needs. In Eros Ascending, author John Maxwell Taylor offers a wide-ranging study of sexual dysfunction in society and explains how healthy sexuality can be an entryway to universal love and higher consciousness. Based on Taylor’s twenty-three-year experience with Taoist practices, the book presents an engaging analysis of love, relationships, and sexuality from spiritual, romantic, and sexual perspectives. Taylor melds essential ideas by Jung, Gurdjieff, and Taoist Master Mantak Chia with science, biology, spiritual tradition, and current popular culture to shed new light on this eternal yet misunderstood subject. Not just for couples, the book is equally useful for single people who want to understand the methods for “learning to love yourself ” in preparation for a fulfilling, long-term relationship. Taylor draws on his eclectic background as a successful playwright, composer, actor, and musician in this persuasive plan for converting ordinary sexual energy into food for the soul.

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Book SynopsisSEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens--sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, heralded young author Lauren F. Winner speaks candidly to Christians about the difficulty--and the importance--of sexual chastity. With honesty and wit, she talks about her struggle to live a celibate life. Never dodging tough terms like "confession" and "sin," Winner grounds her discussion of chastity first and foremost in Scripture. She confronts cultural lies about sex and challenges how we talk about sex in church. Her biblically grounded observations and suggestions will be especially valuable to unmarried Christians struggling with the sexual mania of today's culture. Real Sex is essential reading for Christians grappling with chastity and a valuable tool for pastors.

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Book SynopsisA nationally known sex therapist offers an in-depth look at low sex drive among women—with information and exercises for reviving female desire and sexual pleasure   According to an often-quoted study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 43% of American women suffer from “low libido.” In The Return of Desire, respected sex therapist and researcher Gina Ogden offers a new understanding of this surprising and troubling statistic, moving beyond hormones, drugs, and other medical perspectives to address the mental, emotional, and relational dynamics that can dampen desire. Based on her recent national sex survey and on decades of clinical practice, Dr. Ogden offers readers scores of insights, approaches, and exercises to help them understand how sexual desire can decrease or even disappear in relationships and what they can do about it. She shows you how to: • Open up to the four energies that spark desire • Create heart-to-heart communication with your partner • Transcend guilt, shame, and “good-girls-don't” messages • Help heal the sexual wounds of abuse, addiction, affairs, and low self-esteem• Enjoy sexual pleasure throughout your life span—from new love, to parenthood, and into your golden years

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Book SynopsisA practical and concise guide to living a life of sexual purity covers such topics as raising children with sexually pure values, providing an example of purity at home, protecting purity while dating, and maintaining purity in marriage.

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Book SynopsisSex post-50 can be the best ever, but it requires a different skill-set -- more communication, longer foreplay, different positions, sexual toys and aids -- to stay hot and exciting. It also needs to accommodate the myriad of physical, emotional, and social changes that happen in late middle-age.The Sex Bible For People Over 50 addresses common physical and sexual issues that 50+ couples encounter, and provides tips and solutions that are fun and exciting, like modified positions or the use of sexual toys and aids. It also shows readers how to build new sexual skills by providing exercises and new ways to enjoy sexual pleasure on their own, and with their partner.

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Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide to the occult science of sex magic • Based on the practices of P. B. Randolph, occult rival of H. P. Blavatsky • Reveals how to perform sex magic rituals for specific real-world results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses • Explains how to create magical talismans, such as rings with specific planetary forces, how to enliven a painting, and how to charge an effigy Conceived by Paschal Beverly Randolph, Magia Sexualis has been heralded as the most influential book about sex magic ever written, surviving to the present day solely through Maria de Naglowska’s French translation. Published more than 50 years after Randolph’s death, the authorship of this “translation” has been repeatedly called into question: While the greater part of the content can be traced to Randolph’s known works, a very significant portion cannot--leading to the conclusion that this work was supplemented by Naglowska’s own sex magic work and extensive occult teachings.Magia Sexualis explains Randolph’s meticulous science of sex magic, practiced by the Brotherhood of Eulis and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Beginning with exercises to develop essential skills, the book explains in step-by-step detail how to perform sex magic rituals for specific results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses, how to charge and use a “volt”--an effigy of a specific person you want to influence or protect, how to enliven a painting in order to influence those around it, and how to create magical talismans with specific planetary forces, using what Randolph calls “fluid condensers.” This work from two great occult minds shows that true power of the spirit is acquired in conjunction with the power of sex--affirming that “sex is the fundamental force in every being, the most powerful force in Nature, and the most characteristic evidence of God.”Trade Review“Magia Sexualis is one of the most influential books on sexual magic, and a classic of the occultist genre. This long overdue new translation is a very welcome addition to any collection of books on sexuality, occultism and magic.” * Henrik Bogdan, author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation and co-editor of Aleister Cro *“The practices contained in this work present an antidote to the disconnection of technology, the detachment of the corporeal and re-immerse the participant with the act they are engaging in. We can only hope, if people combat and remedy the removal of their souls from the actions of their bodies, it will spread to other areas of all of our lives.” * Maja D’Aoust, White Witch *“In the field of esoteric studies no one is more mysterious and fascinating than the self-created American original, Paschal Beverly Randolph. Here Traxler provides an accurate translation of his most puzzling and practical text. This text would not have existed but for the synthesizing effort of the European original, Maria de Naglowska, under whose hand this work was made manifest. This translation thankfully helps preserve both of these important and obscure figures in our sphere of knowledge.” * Stephen Flowers, Ph.D., author of Lords of the Left Hand Path *“This undisputable classic of the occultist movement is now available in a reliable English translation. The pioneering importance of Paschal Beverly Randolph is well known since John Patrick Deveney’s great monograph of 1997, but Maria de Naglowska remains largely unknown. Magia Sexualis should be an incentive for further investigations into one of the most mysterious personalities in the history of sexuality and its multiple liaisons with esotericism and the occult.” * Wouter Hanegraaff, co-author of Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Eso *“Randolph was a pioneering practitioner of sex magic and believed that the procreation of the species was a natural miracle, that love was the universal law of the cosmos and the sex act between a man and a woman could open up the way to the attainment of altered states of consciousness and the experience of other realities. Recommended.” * The Cauldron, December 2012 *Table of Contents Introduction: The Most Influential Book about Sex Magic Ever Written by Donald Traxler Part I The Introductory Notes Preface: An Instrument of Initiatic Knowledge by Maria de Naglowska 1 Introduction to the Mysteries 2 The Faith of Eulis 3 The Polarization of the Sexes 4 The Magical Chain and Its Divinities Part II The Principles 5 “Volantia” (Sign A) 6 “Decretism” 7 “Posism” (Sign S) 8 “Tirauclairism” Part III Magic 9 Astrology, Perfumes, Colors, Sounds 10 Magical Sexual Operations 11 The Correction of the Senses and Faculties 12 The Sex of the Child 13 Fluid Condensers 14 “Volts” 15 Magical Charges 16 Special Conditions for the Preparation of Planetary Charges 17 Special Conditions for the Preparation of Projecting Charges 18 Individual Fluid Condensers Part IV Magic Mirrors 19 Magical Mirrors 20 The Instigating Sand 21 The Different Models of Magic Mirrors 22 Special Magic Mirrors 23 Living Tableaux 24 Living Statues 25 Final Note Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAwaken Your Erotic Life "Making sex work—embracing your erotic soul and deepening the intimacy in your life—is both a consequence of deep presence and its gift. Healing our selves in our deepest erotic space can only be a deliberate act, and the doing of it miraculously seems to heal everything else. Tapping into the courage to know your own deepest sexual thoughts and feelings, and offering them with your whole being, is both a life work and lasting gift that will be long remembered." —Wendy Strgar, Sex That Works If you and your partner have lost that special spark, here is a book with the power to save your sex life—and your relationship. Sex That Works invites you to experience a new level of feeling and a new level of freedom in your sexuality. Wendy Strgar offers healing insights, potent practices (for you alone and with your partner), and guidance drawn from her marriage of over 30 years and her work with thousands of people to encourage the full awakening and expression of your erotic life. Nine core topics include: Freedom Taking responsibility for your sexual evolution • Healing our harmful behaviors • Claiming erotic freedom • Overcoming silence • Giving yourself permission • Finding forgiveness Pleasure Pleasure as a medium of communication • Restoring our humanity • Orgasm • Relaxing our judgments about sexuality • The many benefits of self-pleasure • Owning the pleasure response • Calling pleasure by its true name • Transcendent orgasms • Broadening our sexual vocabulary • Pleasure as a fountain of youth Finding your normal The universal uncertainty • Bridging the erotic with the rational • Putting sexual health in context • The Sexual Identity Grid • The malady of sexual dysfunction • Trusting our erotic nature • Beyond right and wrong Courage The gift of choice • Growing up sexually • Living well with risks • Befriending our fear • The four attributes of courage • Desire as courage • Daily practice • Becoming who you really are • Healing erotic wounds • Letting our erotic self teach us Curiosity Overcoming sexual boredom • Filling in the gaps of our sexual education • Exploration as the leader • Sensory intrigue • Opening as a creative act • Awakening to life, sexual and otherwise Sensation Awakening the senses • Out of the head and into the body • Trusting erotic impulses • Building a vocabulary of scent and taste • The healing language of touch • Erotic connections • Making noise • Negotiating shared sensations • Mindfulness • Falling into the body Fantasy Eliciting arousal through stories • Witnessing your fantasies • Fantasies as charged erotic fuel • The space between witnessing and enacting • Inner erotic landscapes • Uncovering the subconscious source of pleasure • Expressing desire • Submission and domination Attention Listening • Making the time • A radical leap • Creating a love container • Sustaining an atmosphere conducive to intimacy • Showing up vs. coexisting • Compassion as a way to connect • Sourcing from our center • Committing to something bigger than our selves Gratitude Letting go and receiving • Grateful sex • Healing through kindness • Receiving abundance • The importance of sexual freedom, revisited • A simple gratitude practice • A passionate love affair with your fleeting life

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Book SynopsisA fun, straightforward, and informative guide that shows you how to bring mindfulness into sex for a bigger, richer, and more present lifeA deep spiritual life and an extraordinary sex life are not mutually exclusive. In this keenly personal and unflinchingly frank guide, Jessica Graham teaches readers how to find mindfulness in sex—without losing the fun and adventure. As Graham offers simple mindfulness tools and techniques for improving your sex life and romantic relationships, she also shares her own powerful personal journey. Once checked out and sexually traumatized, Graham was able to find recovery, joy, and peace in the present moment through mindfulness practices. She weaves together her story with meditations, down-to-earth suggestions, and advice on everything from orgasms to threesomes to dealing with a low sex drive.Not only a tool kit for creating a rich and deeply satisfying sex life, this fun, explicit, and inclusive book conveys the deeper message of how combining meditation with sex can bring about profound spiritual awakenings.

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Book SynopsisAmerica's premier sex advice columnist takes on edgier-than-ever sex-positive topics with his signature candor in his first illustrated collection of adults-only essays, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Savage Love column. Dan Savage has been talking frankly about sex and relationships for 30 years, and has built an international following thanks to his sex-positive Savage Love column and podcast. To celebrate this milestone comes Savage Love from A to Z, an illustrated collection of 26 never-before-published essays that provides a thoughtful, frank dive into Savage's trademark phrases and philosophies. This hardcover book is for anyone who's had sex, is currently having sex, or hopes to have sex!Essays cover a variety of topics:B Is for BoredomF Is for Fuck FirstG Is for GGG (Good Giving Game)M Is for MonogamishWhether he's talking about issues like compatibility or specific sex acts, you can be sure he's giving it to you straight. Short excerpts from his classic columns kick off each essay and cheeky illustrations by his longtime collaborator Joe Newton complement the topic at hand. Savage has moved the needle toward a more open discourse around sex, relationships, and intimacy, and this book will both inspire and inform his legions of fans. An ideal stocking stuffer!Trade Review"Thirty years later, the [Savage Love] column is still going strong, running in newspapers all over the world — plus [Savage] hosts a podcast and has written several books. [He] has become a cultural force in the world of LGBT rights, sex, love and relationships. He has coined new words and ideas for how to be intimate and adventurous, and how to redefine commitment as relationships evolve."—The Washington Post"The book is a victory lap for a writer who has personally made a huge swath of Americans better people and better lovers—less judgmental, more communicative, more generous."—Slate"The format looks slight, but Savage’s alphabetized essays — R is for rejection, B is for bondage and so on — allows for left turns and direct talk that rarely avoids the big picture of every permeation of relationship."—Chicago Tribune"Illustrated by frequent collaborator Joe Newton, Savage’s latest book is an extension of his belief that great sex starts with great communication."—Lavender

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Book SynopsisMore than 80 percent of adult couples in the US report a desire discrepancy between partners - a misalignment not only in frequency of sex but also in what turns them on. Many people harbour fantasies that they feel uncomfortable sharing. With Sprinkles on Top offers a positive and empowering guide to talking about and working through sexual differences - particularly between kinky and non-kinky, or vanilla, partners. Sex therapist Dr. Stefani Goerlich helps readers explore what excites them, what they want to share with their partner, and how to communicate and try new things. With empathy and understanding, the book addresses the fears experienced on both sides of a desire divide and provides guidance for relationships of many different shapes and orientations. It offers evidence-based facts about BDSM and its effects on relationships, reassurance about what a partner’s interests might imply (or not!), support and validation of one’s own preferences, and important tips for differentiating between violence and kink. Here, readers will find specific suggestions for protecting, preserving, and strengthening their relationships despite differences in fantasy and desire. With Sprinkles on Top invites readers into playful and sex-positive exploration and affirms that vanilla and kinky people can thrive together in healthy relationship.

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Book SynopsisA shame-smashing, sex-positive, no-holds-barred guide to understanding our desires and relationships?both our gifts and challenges?through astrologyAstrology offers a potent portal to self-inquiry, including into our erotic landscapes, desires, and relationships. In Sex and Your Stars, certified clinical sexologist and astrologer Stefanie Iris Weiss invites us to explore our sexual selves?as complex, confounding, and fulfilling as we are?through the lens of astrology.Our astrology chart sets us free to truly know ourselves, to shed our shame, and to explore our erotic energy with others, she shares. Using a revolutionary approach, Weiss decodes each sign's sensual profile and helps us activate our sexual potential anew each month as we shift from Aries season to Pisces season over the course of the year. This breakthrough guide helps connect us to our bodies and map our ever-evolving erotic energy.With keen insight, Weiss reveals the many ways w

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback and with journaling prompts, an Economist Best Book of the Year hailed as "Touching, joyful, defiant—and honest,” celebrating African women’s unique journeys toward sexual pleasure and liberation in this newly updated empowering, subversive collection of intimate stories."Dazzling... the tone is hopeful, resilient and accepting. Marked by the diversity of experiences shared, the wealth of intimate details, and the total lack of sensationalism, this is an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review In these confessional pages, women control their own bodies and desires, work toward healing their painful pasts, and learn to assert their sexual power. Weaving a rich tapestry of experiences with a sex positive outlook, The Sex Lives of African Women is an empowering, subversive book that celebrates the liberation, individuality, and joy of African women's multifaceted sexuality. From a queer community in Egypt, to polyamorous life in Senegal, and a reflection on the intersection of religion and pleasure in Cameroon, feminist author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores the many layers of love and desire, its expression, and how it defines who we are.Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex for her blog, “Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.” For this book she spoke to over 30 African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom.Trade Review"Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is changing the way African women talk about sex." —Harper's BAZAAR "I really haven't read anything like it, in its treatment of African women's lives, sex lives, and sexualities. It breaks silences, it challenges stereotypes, it dismisses taboos, it throws social norms out the window, and most importantly, it defends our complexity and it gives us shelter and room for healing."—NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory"Touching, joyful, defiant -- and honest." —The Economist, a Best Book of the Year"Reading these stories is a reminder that the sexuality of African women is far from a monolith... a refreshing and emotional read." —The Continent "The honesty and frankness with which these women share their experiences of falling in love, lust, and their traumas, too, is fascinating…It’s the kind of book that inspires you to reconsider your own romantic preconceptions and to imagine new, healthier dynamics."—BuzzFeed News “Its stories are raw, unencumbered, exhilarating and, at times, enraging”—The Independent "The stories, as written by Sekyiamah, are mesmerizing. The women shared with her, and by extension with us, with true generosity." —Glamour "The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is so important and groundbreaking in its treatment of African women’s sexualities it deserves to be consumed in every possible medium; a docuseries would be a great way to widen its reach." —NoViolet Bulawayo, Elle.com“An ambitious, moving account of women controlling their bodies and their destinies.”—Kirkus Reviews"Sekyiamah’s book seeks to provide the roadmap to recovery through a collection of shared experiences...readers will resonate with the honesty of these stories, and hopefully feel more courageous to live their truth each day."—BUST“Groundbreaking volume … The result is a candid, subversive and empowering read.”—Ms. Magazine"Dazzling ... the tone is hopeful, resilient, and accepting. Marked by the diversity of experiences shared, the wealth of intimate details, and the total lack of sensationalism, this is an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Overflowing with candor, vulnerability, and juiciness, this collection of raw, tender stories that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has so lovingly gathered will upend all of your assumptions and stereotypes. These mothers, activists, writers, sex workers, and others share painful truths, evolving glories, and journeys toward love and freedom, in their own words. They are trans, queer, heterosexual, kinky, and say, 'To hell with labels.' Facing down dangers and double standards, they are healing. The Sex Lives of African Women captures the breadth and depth of the Diaspora with the intimacy of looking in a mirror. Marvelous!” —Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies "The Sex Lives of African Women is a Pan-African feminist love offering to our ancestors, women living across the Diaspora and future generations to come. Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah delivers this love with honesty, levity and delicious prose. This book satiates my appetite for stories that take the interior lives of Black, African and Afro-descendant women seriously. It is simply unparalleled and right on time." —Charlene A. Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements "In these emotionally charged and refreshingly honest essays, this collection gives literal shape to women's sexuality and desires. Nothing less than stunning. Essential read! I couldn't put it down." —Nicole Dennis-Benn, bestselling author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun "This collection affirms what we’ve known all along: African women are reclaiming their bodies and taking ownership of their sexual destinies. Every single story leaves you feeling deliciously empowered." —Lola Shoneyin, author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives."These intimate confessions come from pansexual women, polyamorous women, queer women, trans women and those who identify as heterosexual. Some of their stories are heartbreaking, while others are liberating. Instead of having their stories told for them, they take the reins and find freedom in that, something that every woman deserves."—Del Sandeen, Sisters from AARP"Talking about sex is still taboo in most cultures and communities and these personal stories reveal a mind-blowing variety of sexualities, sex lives and relationships." —Bernardine Evaristo, The Times UK "Everyone will come away standing a little taller and breathing a little lighter, buoyed by the affirmation that we are all normal and that the marginal is central. The Sex Lives of African Women is a safe space: it is pure, unadulterated freedom." —Jane Link, Big Black Books "A book like none you will have read before... With sensitivity, this book has facilitated astonishing breaking of silences. ... Sekyiamah has delivered an extraordinarily dynamic work, true to her own precept that 'Freedom is a constant state of being … that we need to nurture and protect. Freedom is a safe home that one can return to over and over again.'” —Margaret Busby, The Guardian Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface PART 1: SELF- DISCOVERY NuraNafiKeishaBibiEbonyElizabethNaishaChantalePhilesterKuchengaEstelleBingi PART 2: FREEDOM FatouHelen BandaAlexisMiss DeviantGabrielaAminaLauraSolangeYami PART 3: HEALING SalmaMariam GebreShanitaMaureenEstherBaabaVera CruzTafadzwaTsitsiWarisNana Darkoa A FINAL NOTE GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Book SynopsisSexpectations Boy will help you make healthy, positive choices based on the right information.Sexpectations Girl provides honest and straightforward information that will help you make your own healthy choices.Sexpectations talks to girls and guys about when to have sex, how sex happens, why you might (or might not) have sex, what does sex feel like and other important things to know if and when a girl or guy has, or is about to have, sex.But sex isn't just about one person. Sexpectations goes way past how to put on a condom -- it explores the tricky areas of pleasure and desire with real life information shared in a straightforward way. It discusses what's happening with relationships and friends, family, sexual identity and cultural influences. Knowing about and making decisions about sex can be confusing at the best of times. This book will take you through knowing yourself and your body, keeping safe, protecting yourself, thinking through pregnancy, knowing about relationships and tapping into your personal power to make positive choices.With comments from other guys and girls facing the same experiences, Sexpectations talks honestly and respectfully about the hard questions and gives you some answers you might need.

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Book Synopsis'Turned on by something unusual? Interview subjects required for ultra-confidential research into fetishes. Call Sandra.'Straight girl Stephanie Clifford-Smith was fascinated by fetishes. 'What happens the first time someone with a sexual fetish shares it with their lover? Say you had a kink, something you knew was really unusual. Would you risk your lover running screaming from the room by asking if they'll let you lick their eyeballs or would you find some oblique way of bringing it up, perhaps when they were struggling with a stray lash? Or would you just go behind their back and find a willing partner on the internet?' Were sexual fetishes widespread throughout the community, or are they only the domain of a kinky minority? And how has kinkdom changed over time?So Stephanie assumes an identity, puts an ad in the local paper, and sets off to find out for herself. She infiltrates the scene, goes to bondage parties and watches grown men suck dummies as they have their nappies changed. She thought nothing could shock her. She was wrong. The results of her investigation are mind-boggling, hilarious, sometimes creepy and always absolutely fascinating.

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Book SynopsisSlow Pleasure is a practical and philosophical exploration of pleasure, teaching you how to claim, prioritise and integrate pleasure into your daily life.We live in a world of breakneck speed. It can be intimidating and nearly impossible to slow down. In this crisis of pace, we are often disembodied, disconnected, and forget that we even live in a body!In this beautiful book, pleasure coach and educator Euphemia Russell (they/them) teaches us that, despite our collective challenges, we can cultivate pleasure and connection. Starting with the philosophy of pleasure, Euphemia deepens your understanding and then helps you interrogate what is impeding your ability to feel the whole pleasure spectrum. Slow Pleasure will help you establish a pleasure practice of your own, expand your pleasure dial, help you understand your desires and teach you how to continue to explore the depths and boundaries of your pleasure.Woven throughout the book are reflection questions and pleasure practices that bring you back into your body, make you slow down to listen to yourself, and help you consciously begin to prioritise your pleasure.Slow Pleasure teaches us that pleasure goes way beyond sex and should be cultivated and celebrated in every moment.

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Book SynopsisBondage—you’ve seen it on streams and in movies, but not like this! Fifty Shades may have shown you rope, but steel chain gives you more control and power over your partner as a Top. As a Bottom, you can achieve that helpless and submissive space you’ve been seeking. Immobilizing a body with leather cuffs, shackles, and chain can establish the kind of dominance you’re looking for in the BDSM lifestyle. Whether you want to be exposed for sex, or impress others in the dungeon, this how-to guide will teach you the basics of chain bondage techniques for any body type or gender whether you are straight, gay, queer, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, or nonbinary. The Art of Chain: A Guide to Steel Restraint features the fundamentals of chain bondage and practical step-by-step instructions with over 200 detailed pictures to show how to accomplish bondage goals, and features sexy ideas for the bedroom without having to tie any knots. With heavy metal bondage you can add temperature play to make things hot or cold until you have your partner begging. Challenge your definitions of traditional bondage. If chains and whips excite you, then this book is for you!Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1 – The Why 3 Considerations 4 What is Covered 5 Chapter 2 – Negotiations, Consent, and Risks 8 As It Relates to Chain Bondage 10 Specific Risks in Chain Bondage 13 Chapter 3 – Hardware and Safety 13 Chain Materials 17 Chain Maintenance 18 Chain Specifications 20 Chain Connections 31 Non-Chain Related Devices 37 Safety 38 Alright… Where Do I Boy This Stuff? 41 Chapter 4 – The How 54 Your First Single Column – The Thigh Cuff 59 Links for Success 71 Chapter 5 – Harnesses 71 The Gunslinger Hip Harness 75 The Mermaid Hip Harness 80 The Folded Leg Harness 87 The Crossed Leg Harness 91 Arms-Free Chest Harnesses 98 Arms-Behind Chest Harness 105 Arms-Front Chest Harness 112 Body Harnesses 117 Chapter 6 – Applied Techniques for Functional Bondage 117 The Hogtie 119 The Lotus Position 121 Posing for Exposure 123 Headcage 126 Freestyle Chain Bondage 133 Glossary 134 Credits 135 Acknowledgments 136 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisEmbrace Your Inner Girl Boner® Discover more about yourself and your sensuality as you explore everything from lessons learned in sex ed and your hottest fantasies to gender identities, ways to embrace your feelings, and a “Yes, No, Maybe” list you don’t want to miss!Whether you pair it with Girl Boner’s practical tips, in-depth reporting, and inspired storytelling or use it on its own, Girl Boner Journal will help you take your sexual empowerment journey deeper. It’s full of stories and writing prompts to help you better understand and embrace your physical, emotional, and sexual self. Pleasure is key to our health and happiness—it should be thoughtful, not an afterthought.Trade Review" Girl Boner Journal facilitates a sexual journey to the core of our being, an exploration of our unique 'soul truths.' Sexual empowerment sets authentic boundarieswhat we offer to the world is what we are able to receive. Transformation is the world of Girl Boner." KM Huber, creator of Aim for Even"Spending time with August McLaughlin's Girl Boner Journal is like being in the company of your most loving, inspiring, and caring friend. This is the kind of book you want to always have nearby so you can get the comfort and encouragement you need. Girl Boner Journal is the perfect gift for women, for men, and for yourself." Heidi Mastrogiovanni, author of Lala Pettibone's Act Two and Lala Pettibone: Standing Room Only

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Book SynopsisBienvenida al maravilloso mundo de la sexualidad! A solas o en parejaEste libro está pensado para que te liberes de prejuicios, te sientas más libre, explores y disfrutes al máximo de tu sexualidad. Es una invitación a embarcarte en un viaje de autodescubrimiento durante el que aprenderás a empoderarte y a deshacerte de los bloqueos mentales o emocionales que te inhiben.No importa si llevas años en una relación estable o si estás buscando el amor, aquí encontrarás ideas para mejorar la conexión con tu pareja y avivar la pasión cuando la rutina se instala en vuestra vida. Aprenderás a conocerte mejor, a explorar tu cuerpo y, asimismo, descubrirás la masturbación como fuente de placer, individual o en pareja. Comprenderás la importancia de las fantasías y cómo pueden despertar tu sexualidad adormecida, y hallarás consejos para realizar ciertas prácticas.El placer está al alcance de tu mano. Toma las riendas de tu sexualidad y conviértete en la protagonista de tu propia historia erótica.

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Book SynopsisYears ago the split between procreative sex and sex for pleasure were rules governing people’s lives. This day in age, everything has changed. Psychoanalysis and various psychological theories have caused, for the good of all, an earthquake that determines these rigid concepts. The tendency to interpret and group emerging behaviors as “outside the norm” has led to create categories and restrictions. In this framework of encyclopedic knowledge, readers dig into the history of human sexuality and how it has changed in recent years.

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