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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and gender in both humans and other animals. Though many scholars now argue that gender differences are purely a product of socialization, primatologist Frans de Waal illustrates in Different the scientific, evolutionary basis for gender differences in humans, drawing on his decades of experience working with our closest ape relatives: chimpanzees and bonobos....
43) The uncoupling
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a drama teacher's decision to direct "Lysistrata" for the high school play, the women in the town begin to sexually reject their husbands and boyfriends in ways that force both men and women to reevaluate their views on relationships and sexuality.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe-but the story didn't end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust, and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is left cold for too long--these and similar narratives have been accepted as the norm. With The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland aims to dismantle such claims once and for all. Women aren't less sexual...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Poor sexual functioning can serve as a predictor to other emerging health issues, yet too often, men are reluctant to discuss their issues. Here, Dr. Arthur Burnett provides a comprehensive overview of male sexual health and shows how it relates to overall health, providing clinically proven treatments for addressing sexual performance concerns"--
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women--and their bodies--want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to? Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about...
49) One and only
Author
Series
Bridesmaids behaving badly volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"With her bridezilla friend on a DIY project rampage, bridesmaid Jane Denning will do anything to escape - even if it means babysitting the groom's troublemaker brother before the wedding. It should be a piece of cake, except the "cake" is a sarcastic former soldier who is 100% wicked hotness and absolutely off-limits. Cameron MacKinnon is ready to let loose after returning from his deployment. But first he'll have to sweet talk the ultra-responsible...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the world's most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a couples therapist, Perel examines the complexities of sustaining desire. Through case studies and lively discussion,...
54) It takes two
Publisher
Cleis Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
In It Takes Two, couples take their passion in new directions, giving free reign to their filthiest sexual fantasies. Sometimes, they pretend to be someone else, engaging in erotic role-playing that allows them to embody their most sensual side and say and do things they wouldn't in their everyday life. From BDSM encounters at Kink Camp to trying out new sex toys to outrageously filthy fetishes, glorious exhibitionism and voyeurism and sex in space,...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Rachel Krantz met and fell for Jacob, he told her that he was looking to make a commitment -- one that did not include exclusivity. Both anxious and excited at the prospect of a different way to commit, Krantz entered a relationship built equally on love and liberation. And as an inveterate journalist and writer of extraordinary perceptiveness and emotional nuance, she not only put her heart on the line, but kept painstakingly detailed notes,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Approximately 20 percent of Americans have had a sexually transmitted infection. This timely and informative book outlines symptoms, treatment, and risk reduction practices for common STIs in the United States"--
People between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four account for almost half of the sexually transmitted infections reported in the United States each year. Getting proper treatment, and talking about the diseases with sexual partners, friends,...
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