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Planeta Publishing El Proxeneta
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Los demonios del Eden / The Demons of Eden
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£12.62
Roli Books Pvt Ltd Kama Sutra: The Amorous Man The Sensuous Woman
Book SynopsisThe Kamasutra is an ancient classical work on the art of love. Its uniqueness lies in that it discusses the theme of sexual pleasure without any feeling of shyness or shame. The author, Vatsyayana talks about Kama, that is, sexual pleasure, and explains the rules which govern life according to Kama. Through its discussion on erotic love, the book manages to highlight the social customs and individual habits of ancient India. This tastefully produced and beautifully illustrated gift edition treats the subject of male and female sexuality in two separate volumes, suggestively entitled The Amorous Man and the Sensuous Woman. The male-female union is portrayed in all its splendor through the use of Indian miniatures and Khajuraho sculptures.
£18.95
PeePee Publishers and Distributors Pvt Short Essays on Sex: Volume 1
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£5.62
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Social Construction of Sex Work – Ethnography of
Book SynopsisThis book presents an analysis of the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. Izabela Ślęzak focuses on the actions of female sex workers, who are seen as active participants co-creating their working conditions. She analyzes the interactions between sex workers and their clients. Furthermore, she discusses the relationships between employees of the premises, namely the women providing sex services, the managers of the agencies, and security workers.The conclusions of the publication are the result of long-standing ethnographic research carried out in escort agencies, as well as unstructured interviews with their employees and clients. The book is addressed to people who are interested in qualitative sociology, interpretative sociology, and those who would like to understand contemporary escort agencies which operate in Poland. It will be also important for employees of organizations that work with people who provide sex services.Trade ReviewThe great advantage of the book is its rare sensitivity, combined with the reliability and insight of the researcher’s attitude. The author was able to gain the trust of the researched women, but at the same time she avoids becoming their advocate or an impartial observer who watches a researched scene dispassionately. Without moralizing or judging, this book provides the reader with a reliable picture of sex work performed by women who are made of flesh and blood. They have their concerns and hopes, plans for the future, doubts, and thoughts—they are one of us, to put it briefly. The author disenchants prostitution, presenting it more in terms of work rather than a vice. Therefore, this highly stereotyped fragment of the social world gets a human face. The author has done work that is the essence of a sociologist’s task—to get insight into a social reality and comprehend it. -- Elżbieta Zakrzewska-Manterys, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University
£35.70
Obelisco Sexo, Salud Y Conciencia
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£17.31
Herder & Herder El Capital Sexual En La Modernidad Tardia
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£13.26
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sexbook: Una historia ilustrada de la sexualidad
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£25.45
Anagrama, Editorial S.A. Nuevos Cuadernos Anagrama: (Fe)Male Gaze
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£11.39
Drago Arts & Communication Cooking With The Bears: Healthy Recipes by Hairy
Book SynopsisThat's right: Bears just got their very own cookbook. Cooking with the Bears is the first and only book that uniquely captures bears creating delicious Italian dishes in their own kitchens. "Giving a middle finger to accepted body standards and homophobia at home," writes Vice, "Cooking with the Bears is dedicated to these furry fellows and the food they love to eat, and I'll be damned if it isn't delightful."
£34.65
Nconsulting Sexy Anime Girls Uncensored Coloring Book for
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Nconsulting Sexy Anime Girls Uncensored Coloring Book for
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£16.95
Amsterdam University Press Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisHow did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it reveals how men responded to bouts of ill health and their relationships with the medical practitioners tasked with curing them. In doing so, this study restores men’s health to medical histories of reproduction, demonstrating how men’s sexual self-identity was tied to their health. Charting genitourinary conditions across the life cycle, the book illustrates how fertility and potency were key to medical understandings of men’s health. Men utilized networks of care to help them with ostensibly embarrassing and shameful conditions like hernias, venereal disease, bladder stones, and testicular injuries. The book thus offers a historical voice to modern calls for men to be alert to, and open about, their own bodily health.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Sexual Health and the Life Cycle 1. Disrupting Manly Development: Issues in Infancy and Childhood 2. A Moment of Crisis: Flagging Phalluses and Failing Fertility 3. Old Lechers: Ageing Bodies and Manhood in Decline Part Two: Patients and Practitioners 4. Embarrassment and Reticence 5. In ‘soe much payne he coud not indure it’ 6. Family Matters 7. Unruly Patients
£101.65
Blacksmith Books Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the Men and
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£9.49
Monsoon Books Jakarta Undercover: 1
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£12.24
NUS Press Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in
Book SynopsisAmong the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and - making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records - hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease and death.The result is a powerful historical account of human nature, of human relationships, of pride, prejudice, struggle and spirit. Ordinary people tumble from the pages of the records: they talk about choice of partners, love and betrayal, desperation and alienation, drawing us into their lives. This social history is a powerful corrective to the romantic image of colonial Singapore as a city of excitement, sophistication, exotic charm and easy sex. In the years since its original publication in 1992, this book, and its companion Rickshaw Coolie, have become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.
£23.36
Hong Kong University Press First Queer Voices from Thailand – Uncle Go`s
Book SynopsisThis is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson's highly regarded pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson's fascinating narrative is Uncle Go, which was the pen name of a popular magazine editor who, despite being avowedly heterosexual, was tolerant of all sexual practices and whose agony uncle columns in the 1970s provided unique spaces in the national press for Thailand's gays, lesbians, and transgendered (kathoeys) to speak for themselves in the public domain. By allowing the voices of alternative sexualities to be heard, Uncle Go emerged as Thailand's first champion of gender equality and sexual rights. Peter Jackson translates and analyzes selected correspondence published in Uncle Go's advice columns, preserving and presenting important primary sources. In this new edition, Jackson has expanded his coverage to include not only letters from Thai gay men but also those from lesbians and trans people, thus capturing the full diversity of Thailand's modern queer cultures at a key moment in their historical development when new understandings of sexual identities were first communicated to the wider community.
£60.45
Hong Kong University Press Sex and Desire in Hong Kong
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£30.47
Viella Editrice Turpi Traffici: Prostituzione E Migrazioni Globali. 1890-1940
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