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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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El nuevo libro de la sexóloga Valeria de Botas, nos plantea un viaje de autodescubrimiento erótico que nos llevará a reconectarnos con el placer en todos los niveles. A partir de distintas historias y técnicas, la autora nos conducirá por los caminos de la sexualidad femenina; nos enseñará a soltar la culpa y los tabúes para que nos abramos a nuestro mayor potencial. Es así como, mediante el humor, la honestidad y mucha creatividad, Valeria...
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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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La sexología nació bajo el signo de la patología. Su preocupación no ha sido cuidar y aumentar el goce sexual sino marcar los límites de la sexualidad considerada normal, por un lado, y los "excesos" y "desviaciones", por el otro. De tal modo, la "normalidad" sexual estaría naturalizada por la pareja varón activo/mujer pasiva. Todas las personas que tuvieran otra sexualidad o prefirieran otras prácticas serían patologizadas y, eventualmente,...
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“Sexual Reminisces” is a compilation of real life stories based on sexual experiences that welcomes you to an arousing sensual escapade. It contains three volumes of 100 steamy poems in relation to sexual performance and seasoned it is with relationship advice. Rare Diamond documents sexual experiences of real people and translates them into poetic narratives. She weaves her own experience with that of her friends and associates to articulate...
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Nuestra sexualidad es una parte integral de quienes somos, pero, sin embargo, nuestra comprensión del sexo ha sido distorsionada por muchas cosas, desde tabúes anticuados y dogmas religiosos hasta una cultura popular que ve la sexualidad como una transacción. Con Sexo, salud y conciencia, Liz Goldwyn, fundadora de la exitosa plataforma online y del pódcast The Sex Ed, ha creado una guía inclusiva, holística, y muy necesaria, del bienestar sexual...
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Did you know...
*That, until the mid-1600s, scientists believed that each sperm cell contained a tiny human being?
*That Romans and Egyptians used condoms, but it wasn't until a physician crafted one from a sheep's intestine for England's notorious Charles II that the term "sheepskin" came into use?
*That by playing Six Degrees of Sexual Separation you can get Carmen Electra into bed with Joan Collins-or Al Pacino into bed with Frank Sinatra-in...
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El silencio de la sexualidad femenina contiene un doble silencio: el que guardan las mujeres sobre sí mismas y el que hay en nuestra sociedad al respecto.
Este libro no hubiera sido posible sin las palabras de mujeres que dicen algo sobre su sexualidad, testimonios que cuestionan el discurso común. Relatos de sujetos femeninos en análisis, conversaciones entre amigas, comentarios que emergen desde lugares remotos. Tras situaciones habituales, gestos...
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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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Alexa Tsoulis-Reay's Finding Normal is an author's up close tour of people who are using the Internet to challenge the boundaries of what's taboo and what it means to be normal.
Finding Normal explores how people are using the internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge a variety of sexual norms. Based on a highly candid interview series conducted for New York magazine's human science column—"What It's...
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For the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the "sexual non-preference of the '90s." In Look Both Ways, Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of gay and bisexual characters, performers, and issues on the national cultural stage. Despite the prevalence of bisexuality among Generation X and Y women, she finds that it continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures,...
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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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One of O Magazine's Must-Read Books for June 2013
A provocative and personal meditation on sex, power, and female desire
Today's women, we're told, have more options in exercising their desire than ever before in history. And yet the way we talk about desire is virtually as constrained as it was for the Victorians. There's an essential paradox at the heart of female sexuality: What we demand in our public lives is often in direct contrast to what...
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