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Author
Publisher
Voracious/Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever had a question about sex--whether out of curiosity, desire, or the sneaking suspicion you're somehow, different? Every Body will help you feel less alone. It's a huge collection of anonymous stories, essays, artwork, and expert tell-alls on myriad subjects, all rolled into one. Really, it's the conversations most of us are too scared to start. Thanks to talented duo Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg, we don't have to. The stories, essays,...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With curiosity and irreverent insight, science writer Rachel Feltman breaks down the long, weird, illustrious history of sex. She guides readers through the kaleidoscopic archives of centuries-old porn and erotica, as well as the bizarre history of treatments for erectile dysfunction, including radium suppositories and goat testicle transplants. Feltman provides the history of huge scientific questions-e.g., How are babies made?-and considers the...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times. Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT, and sexuality journalist and podcaster August McLaughlin,...
Author
Publisher
Lumen, 2022
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Desde las venus paleolíticas hasta el sexo en tiempos de pandemia, pasando por el arte erótico japonés, la vida sexual de los filósofos, el travestismo en la antigua Roma, el lesbianismo en la Edad Media, los bares gays del siglo XVIII, las terapias de conversión, la píldora, el sida, el destape ruso, la asexualidad, la viagra, el tuppersex o el twerking, Sexbook ofrece un viaje único, apasionante y profusamente ilustrado por la historia de...
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La sexualidad una y otra vez ha sido usada como un modo de control social, de normalización, de represión. Es también una fuerza vital y creativa que intenta escapar a toda estructura fija, que se rebela y transgrede y se reinventa. La sexualidad es una realidad compleja y viva en la que convive lo biológico, lo sociocultural, lo psicológico, lo reproductivo, lo erótico, lo afectivo, lo relacional. Y al estar viva es dinámica, es decir, se...
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sex is everywhere. It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear. It defines who we are and our place in society...at least we're told it ought to. Sex and sexuality can seem like a house of horrors, full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'... With compassion, humor, erudition and a touch of the erotic, [authors]...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The act of reproduction, and all of its variants, have been practiced in roughly the same ways since the beginning, but our ideas about the meaning and consequences of sex are in constant flux. At any given point in time, some forms of sex have been encouraged, while others have been punished without mercy. Jump forward or backward a century, or cross a border, and the harmless fun of one society becomes the gravest crime in another. Beginning at...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex. In...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani's passionate and intelligent...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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. Based on a popular series of candid interviews conducted for New York magazine's human science column-"What It's Like"-Finding Normal explores the ways that real people are using the Internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge...
16) Tropic of Cancer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in Paris in 1934 and now considered an American classic, it was initially banned in this country as obscene. It is the account of a young writer and his friends in Paris.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Grey hit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender; encounter a thousand years' worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods; consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in...
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