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At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, "in your face." While critics accuse the academy of an obsession with sexuality, they also complain that nothing that appears to refer to sex really does.
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This book is about the problems that women between the ages of eighteen and eighty will or have encountered throughout their lives. It gives advice on how to solve these problems and how to avoid them in the future. This book gives practical advice on how to solve relationship problems and to live your best life.
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From award-winning psychosexologist Chantelle Otten comes the well-overdue, inclusive and meticulous guide to all things sex, bodies and relationships.
For too long, talking about our anatomies and our experiences has been taboo. Normal functions have been deemed embarrassing and even shameful, impacting people's mental and physical health. In this amazing and comprehensive guide filled with accurate facts and helpful illustrations, Chantelle refuses...
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Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender. To this end, the essays in the collection focus on the uncertain and contingent nature of sexual...
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The Last Horizon offers you a new way to face the rest of your life with a detailed description of American society that you may have encountered every day. Elements of your personality and those of everyone around you have been affecting every decision you have made throughout your life. Now you have the opportunity to better understand those choices.
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This authoritative update presents current findings on-and clinically and ethically sound responses to-the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. It examines in powerful detail how military culture enables a pervasive subculture of sexual violence, from consistently devaluing women to blaming victims and denying them justice. The author's dual attachment/trauma theory lens attends to a wide range of outcomes such as unit members closing ranks...
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Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933. As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wilhelm Reich expanded psychoanalytic resistance into the more inclusive technique of character analysis, in which the sum total of typical character attitudes developed by an individual as a blocking against emotional excitations became the object of treatment. These encrusted attitudes functioned as an "armor,"...
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Are you perplexed when bad things seem to happen to you without any apparent cause? Are you confused about relationships? Do you begin a good relationship but find that sooner or later it goes downhill? When you have done some creative work and feel excited about it, do you find that you feel sexy afterwards and may even want sex? If so, then this book is for you.
The overall reason is that you are unaware of your emotional responses, mainly because...
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"Dans l'ombre des réalités d'aujourd'hui, o le chmage danse avec la misère, o la discrimination flétrit les rêves du sexe féminin, o les limites socio-culturelles obscurcissent l'horizon, et o la faim tenaille les ventres vides de l'espoir, il existe un récit qui se tisse. Au cœur de ce récit, l'amour, la tromperie, les émotions complexes qui s'entrelacent.C'est une mélodie d'intrigue et de passions, une symphonie de désirs inexprimés,...
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Wilhelm Reich was born in Austro-Hungary in 1897. By the 1920s, Reich had become a doctor of medicine and taken his place as a prominent psychoanalyst in Sigmund Freud's inner circle. He went on to focus his attention on the relationship between the emotional, physiological and physical functions of the biological energy underlying human emotional experience, which he called orgone. He saw psyche and soma as a unified whole and the goal of therapy...
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Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity and how such factors as age, decade of birth, and religious adherence are reflected in patterns of sexual behavior....
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Originally published in 1800, Crimes of Passion contained eleven stories and an essay on the novel. The present book contains three abridged tales. In "Florville and Courval" we find not only a reinterpretation and elaboration of the Oedipus myth, but an unforgettable illustration of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade's artistic creed. He was not simply an eccentric aristocrat with artistic pretensions, but a pathological rebel against the Age of...
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Unveil the mysteries of the human mind and explore the fascinating realm of "The Enigma of Erotomania: A Closer Look at Obsessive Love." In this insightful and thought-provoking book, we delve deep into the intriguing world of erotomania, a rare and enigmatic delusional disorder where love takes an obsessive and deluded form.Inside "The Enigma of Erotomania," you will find:I. Understanding ErotomaniaA comprehensive overview of erotomania, its history,...
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This 4th edition is filled with fascinating topics psychology students and professionals will enjoy!Do you want to learn why human relationships are important?Do you want to learn what causes human relationships to form?Do you want to learn why humans show prosocial behaviour?If the answer is yes to any of these questions and more, then this is the book for you as we investigate how human relationships form, types of love and relationships and the...
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"My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them," confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make themselves...
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Discover the labyrinth of human desire with our enlightening book, "Libido: The Promise of Pleasure." This comprehensive guide navigates through the intricate realm of human sexuality, focusing on one of its most pivotal facets - the libido.Libido, our innate sexual drive, is more than a simple biological impulse for procreation; it's an engaging pursuit of pleasure. This pleasure manifests in various forms - physical, psychological, and emotional...
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James Douglas Barron offers humorous, practical advice for the guy who has trouble making commitment. Telling his one story of dating and engagement, he tackles the problems that plague millions of men: "Is She The One?" "No Other Woman for the Rest of My Life?" "Will We Love Each Other When We're Shriveled Up Old Raisins?" Barron gives the quick, invaluable tips on how to get over the hurdle of proposal, engagement, planning the wedding, and getting...
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Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are.
Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host-the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"-decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and back to the strip clubs (but only because he left his glasses there), Sagal explores what the sinful folk do, how much they pay for the privilege, and how exactly they...
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The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn-that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world's most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn...
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This unique study of sexuality and society offers a provocative reframing of the subject-including what the author calls a periodic table of perversions.
In Smut, Murray S. Davis investigates sex in a way that differs from nearly all previous books on the subject. Discarding the simplistic theory of sex as a natural instinct, he sets out to develop new explanations for its universal appeal. Drawing on a wide variety of literary forms, including the...
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