SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction

Sex tips for girls by guys

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Men are supposed to be easy to please, but as any man will tell you there's a huge difference between an everyday happy ending and a mind-blowing sexual revelation. Expertise matters, but many men are too shy to tell their partners exactly how to achieve it-and many women are to…

How to be kinky: a beginner's guide to BDSM

by Morpheous

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How to be Kinky is a primer on the multifaceted world of kink and getting into BDSM play. It is for beginners and novices, couples and singles. Here, Morpheous tackles topics that aren't regularly addressed in other sex etiquette books. Most books on BDSM lean heavily towards cl…

How to be kinky: a beginners guide to BDSM

by Morpheous

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How to be Kinky is a primer on the multifaceted world of kink and getting into BDSM play. It is for beginners and novices, couples and singles. Here, Morpheous tackles topics that aren't regularly addressed in other sex etiquette books. Most books on BDSM lean heavily towards cl…

Cosmopolitan Sexopedia

by Cosmopolitan

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From the editors of Cosmo comes the ultimate A-Z sex guide . . . . One thing Cosmo knows from its millions of readers: people ALWAYS want info on sex. And this frank and frisky "sexopedia" gives them everything their naughty hearts desire. No subject is off-limits, too risqu?, o…

Sex goes to school: girls and sex education before the 1960s

by Freeman, Susan Kathleen

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When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance. But Susan K. Freeman's investigation of the classrooms of the 1940s and 1950s offers numerous insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. Fro…

Desire and discipline: sex and sexuality in the premodern West

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The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the twelfth and the early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplo…

Sexuality

by Bristow, Joseph

fromNew Critical Idiom

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In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding theories of sexuality and desire. Fully updated for this second edition, the volume presents new and extended discussion of queer and transgender theory, race, ethnicity …

Whipping girl: a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoatin…

by Serano, Julia

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A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations -…

Cosmopolitan sex workers: women and migration in a global city

by Chin, Christine B. N.

fromOxford studies in gender and international relations

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"This text examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labour in Southeast Asia. Christine B.N. Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework termed '3C' (city, creativity, and cosmopolitanism) to…

Tantric quest: an encounter with absolute love

by Gladding, Jody, Odier, Daniel

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The author reveals his passionate experiences with a female Tantric master who taught him the suppressed practices of her ancient order. In 1968 Daniel Odier left Europe for the Himalayas, searching for a master who could help him go where texts and intellectual searching could …

Performing sex: the making and unmaking of women's erotic lives

by Fahs, Breanne

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A candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America. Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half…

Lust: What We Know About Human Sexual Desire

by Regan, Pamela C. C., Berscheid, Dr. Ellen S.

fromSage series on close relationships

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Accessibly written, this interdisciplinary book reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the individual physical and mental factors that influence the experience of sexual desire (hormones, age, gender, beliefs, mood), the various partner characterist…

Lust: what we know about human sexual desire

by Regan, Pamela C., Berscheid, Ellen

fromSage series on close relationships

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Covering the theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the authors use findings from research on sexual and romantic attraction. The book also explores the individual physical and mental factors that influence sexual desire.

The dark side of courtship: physical and sexual aggression

by Lloyd, Sally A., Emery, Beth C.

fromSage series on close relationships

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"Blending qualitative interviews with current research findings, this book explores the "dark side" of courtship - the negative interactions that take place between dating and courting partners, most notably physical aggression and sexual exploitation. It emphasizes the importan…

Heterosexuality in question

by Jackson, Stevi

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Drawing on feminism on one hand, and phenomenological and interactionist sociology on the other, this book offers an overview of recent feminist and sociological debates on heterosexuality and the construction of desire.

With pleasure: thoughts on the nature of human sexuality

by Abramson, Paul R., Pinkerton, Steven D.

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This study argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors define sexual pleasure as a unifying phenomenon to account for the practices of sexuality. They show that reproduction itself occurs as a by-product of p…

The paradox of love

by Bruckner, Pascal

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The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pasc…

The Paradox of Love

by Bruckner, Pascal, Randall, Steven, Golsan, Richard

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The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pasc…

Asian American sexual politics: the construction of race, gender, and sexuality

by Chou, Rosalind

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Asian American Sexual Politics explores beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. Drawing on sixty in-depth interviews, the book shows how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality reinforce the social and political dominance for whites and exp…

From shame to sin: the Christian transformation of sexual morality i…

by Harper, Kyle

fromRevealing antiquity

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The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the root…