The Key Party

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The 1950s are remembered as the "happy days" of the 20th century, when families were intact, religion was a salient motive in people's lives, juvenile delinquency seemed the worst sort of crime and alcohol was the drug of choice.

CONTESTING BODIES AND NATION IN CANADIAN HISTORY

 

ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4559-2
Editors: Patrizia Gentile (1970–) & Jane Nicholas (1977–)
Title: Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Language: English
Place of Publication: Toronto, Buffalo, London
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year of Publication: 2013
Format: 155x235mm
Pages: xvi+428; Bibliography, 387; Contributors, 417; Index, 423
Figures: 39 b&w
Binding: blue cloth without dust jacket
Weight: 809 gr.
Current Price: €20.54 (book: €12.39; postage: €7.41; sales tax 6.00%: €0.74)
Supplier: Revaluation Books
Order Number: 71161965
Order Date: 1/12/2022
Order Shipped: 5/12/2022
Order Received: 19/12/2022
Entry Number: 2022020
Entry Date: 19^th December 2022

All the F*cking Mistakes

 

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Come As You Are meets How to Date Men When You Hate Men in this sex handbook for the millennial feminist on how to own your body and sexuality, and use that confidence to take charge of your life

Histoire du libertinage

BOOK DESCRIPTION

L'histoire d'un mouvement de pensée provocateur marqué par l'irreligiosité et la liberté des mœurs, de la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières.

AMERICA'S WAR ON SEX

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Americans are more vulnerable today than ever to anxiety about sexual danger, to believing that their sexuality is not "normal" or moral, and to laws and public policies that restrict their rights, criminalize their consenting behavior, and confuse and miseducate their children.

Shall We Cover Miss Liberty's Eyes With A G-String? by Marty Klein (7/1/1999)

The Phoenix, AZ City Council recently decided to eliminate sex clubs for adults. Do you feel safer now?

AMERICAN ECSTACY

BOOK DESCRIPTION

AMERICAN ECSTASY is a memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years photographer Barbara Nitke spent shooting stills on porn movie sets in New York City.

SEX AND THE CONSTITUTION

BOOK DESCRIPTION

There has never been a book like Sex and the Constitution, a one-volume history that chapter after chapter overturns popular shibboleths, while dramatically narrating the epic story of how sex came to be legislated in America.

MY SECRET GARDEN

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Newly repackaged, the groundbreaking bestseller that explores female sexuality through women's most intimate fantasies.

Welcome to Nancy Friday's secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are free to express the sexual dreams they have never dared to confide before. Safe behind the walls of anonymity, hundreds of real women responded to Nancy Friday's call for details of their own most private fantasies. My Secret Garden is the daring compilation of those fantasies. When it first appeared, it created a storm of outrage in the media...and an equal sense of exhilaration for those women who finally were able to share their sisters' most intimate thoughts. Even now, in a new millennium, over then thousand women each year buy a new copy of this astounding classic of feminist literature. Join them in their exploration of the meaning of desire. Dare to read, dare to dream, and dare to discover the beautiful blossoms, the winding paths, and the hidden nooks of female sexuality.

THE GROUPSEX TAPES

ISBN-13: 978-0870350061
Writers: Paul Rubenstein and Herbert Margolis
Title: The Groupsex Tapes
Subtitle: 98 Participants to the Newest, Most Revolutionary Release of Sexual Inhibitions Tell What They Do, Why They Do It, and What It Reveals About New Dimensions in Male-Female Relationships
Foreword: Martin Grotjahn
Language: English
Edition: Second Printing
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc.
Year of Publication: 1971
Format: 143x220mm
Pages: vi+306; Glossary, 297; Bibliography, 297
Jacket Design: Lawrence Ratzkin
Binding: Cloth blue in single colour dust jacket
Original Price: USD  6.95
Weight: 559 gr.
Entry No.: 2013002
Entry Date: 31^st January 2013

BOOK DESCRIPTION

This is the first factual, detailed account of today's American Groupsex practices as reported live on tape, by the participants themselves in their own uninhibited words. Here, insiders tell the real story of the most revolutionary challenge ever to confront marriage ethics.

MODERN SEXUALITY

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Human sexuality today stands at the crossroads between biological diversity and social conformity, and a battle between the two rages in the media, in social institutions, and in our daily lives. As a sex therapist, Michael Aaron witnesses this struggle each and every day as it plays out on his therapy couch. Modern Sexuality: The Truth about Sex and Relationships examines how biology and society collide head-on in the realm of human sexuality. Here, Aaron carefully and convincingly debunks some of the most commonly held beliefs about sexuality – that it is learned and can be changed; that “abnormal” sexual behavior is pathological; that healthy sexuality involves intimacy; that intimacy is the same to everyone; and that sexuality must have a clearly defined purpose.

Using groundbreaking brain-imaging studies and cutting- edge psychological insights, Modern Sexuality presents the overwhelming case for sexual diversity including orientation, non-traditional relationships, and even specific fantasies and kinks. In a world where sexual “outsiders” battle for acceptance, this work helps to explore the variety of sexual expressions from a normative standpoint, helping readers to understand that their own desires and those of others can happily exist on the same continuum.

69 SHADES OF SWINGING

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Find the answer to every question about how to make the swinging Lifestyle work for you with this tell-all guide that will enhance your sex life beyond your relationship. Ever ask yourself any of these questions? • Why should we swing? • How do I bring up the idea of swinging? • How do we get started once we’re interested? • What dangers should we beware of and how can we avoid them? • What are the rules for swinging? • Why are women in charge? • How do single people fit into the swing Lifestyle? • What really goes on at Swing events and how do events differ? • How expensive is the Lifestyle? • How and where do we meet other Lifestylers? • Where can we travel internationally for a good time in the Lifestyle? • How do we cope with performance or appearance anxiety? From tips for where to find swingers locally and around the world to what to wear and say, and how to create a Web profile and spot fakes, this book details ways to encourage your sensuality. Authors Larry and Mia Fine, married for nearly 30 years, embraced the swinging Lifestyle in 2000 and have since attended seven Lifestyle conventions and hosted more than 50 private swing parties and are regulars at Hedonism II and various swing clubs.

VIBRATOR NATION

BOOK DESCRIPTION

In the 1970s a group of pioneering feminist entrepreneurs launched a movement that ultimately changed the way sex was talked about, had, and enjoyed. Boldly reimagining who sex shops were for and the kinds of spaces they could be, these entrepreneurs opened sex-toy stores like Eve’s Garden, Good Vibrations, and Babeland not just as commercial enterprises, but to provide educational and community resources as well. In Vibrator Nation Lynn Comella tells the fascinating history of how these stores raised sexual consciousness, redefined the adult industry, and changed women's lives. Comella describes a world where sex-positive retailers double as social activists, where products are framed as tools of liberation, and where consumers are willing to pay for the promise of better living—one conversation, vibrator, and orgasm at a time.

UNCULTURED

 

Dear Reader,
A few days after I woke up blind from a brain tumor pressing on my left eye, made only more intense because I was a soldier deployed to Afghanistan, my commander said to me, "Write it all down. Find the thread in the story of your life."
              Until then, I hadn't thought of myself as a writer, only a voracious reader. After a life of being trafficked and abused throughout Asia and Latin America as a child born into the third generation of the religious sex cult, the Children of God, everything I knew about the outside world was through select Disney movies and surreptitious reading. I longed for the life of the typical American teenager, but when I got excommunicated and enrolled myself in a Houston high school, I felt like I was from another planet. Books saved my life then, and I read my way into college, into an honors degree in literature, into learning how to approach the world with a mind open to diverse viewpoints, rather than the extremist perspectives under which I'd been raised.
             

SEX DOLLS, ROBOTS AND WOMEN HATING

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Lifelike, replica women and girls produced for men’s sexual use, sex dolls and robots represent the literal objectification of women. They are marketed as companions, the means for men to create their ‘ideal’ woman, and as the “perfect girlfriend” that can be stored away after its use. Advocates claim the development of sex dolls and robots should be actively encouraged and will have many benefits—but for who? Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating exposes the inherent misogyny in the trade in sex dolls and robots modelled on the bodies of women and girls for men’s unlimited sexual use. From doll owners enacting violence and torture on their dolls, men choosing their dolls over their wives, dolls made in the likeness of specific women and the production of child sex abuse dolls, sex dolls and robots pose a serious threat to the status of women and girls.

THE FRONTIERS OF SEX RESEARCH

 

ISBN-10: 0-87975-113-4
Editor: Vern L. Bullough
Title: The Frontiers of Sex Research
Language: English
Place of Publication: Buffalo, N.Y.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Year of Publication: 1979
Format: 152x230mm (trimmed)
Pages: vi+190; A Guide to Further Reading, 189
Cover Design: Betsy Offerman
Binding: Paperback in duotone printed wrappers
Original Price: N/A
Weight: 333 gr.
Entry No.: 2012021
Entry Date: 21st June 2012

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The Age of Sexual Repression has given way to the Age of Sexual Enlightenment. Television, radio, movies, newspapers and magazines now find sex an acceptable and provocative topic of discussion. Issues such as contraception, abortion, premarital sex, homosexuality, normality, and adultery are openly discussed, not just by sexologists, counselors, and physicians, but by parents and their children, teachers, clergymen, and politicians as well. This new emphasis on sex has been termed the Sex Revolution.

The Frontiers of Sex Research reports on the progress of the Sex Revolution and discusses the most recent discoveries in the field of human sexuality. The articles are written by leading sexologists, sociologists, and psychologists, and other researchers in the sex field. Each author is a specialist in an important area of research. For example, John Money, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, has an article on eroticism and sexual hang-ups. There is a section on sex therapy written by Hartmann and Fithian, one of the pioneering sex therapy teams. The section on the physiology of sex and its implications is written by a physician specializing in sexual problems and his wife who is a psychiatric social worker. A surgeon who has done transsexual surgery describes what is happening in that field. Elizabeth Canfield discusses sexual normality, Lester Kirkendall discusses the aims and objectives in sexual research, and Vern Bullough focuses on psychiatry and the history of prostitution. Additionally, there are lively, personal accounts of transvestism and transsexuality. The essays are engaging as well as informative.

The Frontiers of Sex Research derives its value from the diversity of its authors’ views and should prove stimulating for anyone interested in exploring the realms of human sexuality.

PASSION LOST

 

ISBN-13: 978-0-919028-41-8
Writer: Patricia Anderson
Title: Passion Lost
Subtitle: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Place of Publication: Toronto
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
Year of Publication: 2001
Format: 154x228mm (trimmed)
Pages: xi+271; Notes, 233; Index, 267
Illustrations: one black and white of the writer on the back flap by Tamara Roberts
Cover design: Gordon Robertson
Cover Photograph: Edward Holub
Binding: Paperback in duotone printed wrappers
Original Price: CAD 24.95
Weight: 392 gr.
Entry No.: 2013016
Entry Date: 28^th May 2013

BOOK DESCRIPTION

While sex has been historically a private matter, in the twentieth century it became a public obsession. Beginning in the early 1900s, people widely felt that increased openness about sex was the key to personal fulfillment and happy relations. Yet this emphasis on the physical has eroded our understanding of the emotional and spiritual dimensions of intimacy. Today, sex has saturated contemporary life through television, movies, books, magazines, videos, tabloids, advertising and the Internet. Meanwhile, desensitization and sexual dysfunction, obsession with body image, short-lived commitments, and high divorce rates are signs that our deepest private desires remain unfulfilled.

We yearn for true connection with the romantic other, and our growing malaise has given rise to nostalgic myths of golden times that never really existed. Patricia Anderson's Passion Lost, a lively history of sexual mores– from the burgeoning sexual concerns of the twentieth century's early years, the changing morality of the 1920s and 1930s, the liberties of wartime, and the 1950s'veneer of rectitude, to the freedoms of the following decades– examines those myths and paints a compelling new portrait that illustrates how deeply the present is rooted in the past, and how our quest for intimacy has been hijacked by our public obsession with sex. By guiding us through the landscape of emotional and sexual development in the twentieth century, Patricia Anderson gives fresh meaning to the role of passion in our culture and new hope for the future of relationships.

ΤΗΕ ΑΜERICAN WAY OF SEX

ISBN-13: 978-0-8467-0567-3
Writer: Bradley Smith
Title: The American Way Of Sex
Subtitle: An Informal Illustrated History
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: A. Gemini Smith Inc. Book
Year of Publication: 1978
Format: 218x282mm
Pages: 254; Bibliography, 248; Index, 252
Illustrations: 121 single and full colour plates, pictures and sketches
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket
Original price: USD 19.95
Weight: 1,188 gr.
Entry No.: 2010021
Entry Date: 3rd September 2010

BOOK DESCRIPTION

From the naked Indians of the past to today’s next-door neighbors, what has been the sexual behavior of the American people? How and why are Americans different from Europeans and Asians in their sexual attitudes? The books is the culmination of a vast search for documentation of sexual customs in relation to American history and environment.

To show the changing sex scene from pre-Columbian America to the present, the author brings to life Indian maidens and conquistadors, Negro mistresses and plantation owners, politicians and clergymen, pimps and priests, celibates and profligates. Giving a fresh and inquisitive, yet amused, look at the journals of the Spanish explorers, church archives of the Pilgrim Fathers, letters of political leaders and diaries of whorehouse madams of New Orleans, New York and San Francisco, Bradley Smith tracks down and interprets pertinent myths, legends, anecdotes and tall tales.

For example, with a few blue glass beads and a twist of tobacco, a trapper buys and Indian girl from her father. In Puritan New England, a man is hanged for bestiality, along with a cow, two heifers, three sheep and two sows found equally guilty of the crime. How to Choose a Mistress by Benjamin Franklin is published while he is postmaster general; later, the post office declares the book obscene. In New Orleans’ licensed “Storyville,” circa 1910, whorehouse madams publish booklets describing their sumptuous furnishings and extolling the talents of their “entertainers.” In the late 1920s Judge Ben B. Lindsey advocates trial marriage. Also during this period, lesbianism becomes relatively respectable.

The ritual sexual hospitality of the Indians and the “bundling” of the Puritans are just as much a part of the American sexual experience as “getting off” with pot in the ‘60s and the use of a mechanical phallus by Masters and Johnson to photograph the female orgasm from within the vagina. All have had a definite effect on social and sexual customs in the USA.

Many never-before published paintings, lithographs and photographs illustrate the changing sexual mores. From the thirty-two pages printed in full color and more than a hundred black-and-white illustrations, a new view of sexuality in America emerges. On a Broadway theatrical poster of 1889, a sinister Chinese “King of the Opium Ring” seduces a drugged young girl. A Kentucky whiskey advertisement displays “zaftig” nude girls cavorting in a harem. In a lithograph, circa 1900, a butler drops his tray as he sees the master making passes at the maid (his wife). A sketch made in 1920 shows an emancipated woman on one of the first divorce trips ever made to Reno, Nevada. The “first” unretouched female American nude is republished.

This book, then, is a review of Americans’ reaction to their sexual environment. Not a sociological study, it is rather a tale-teller’s sketchbook, revealing a pattern that allows the reader relevant glimpses into the joyful, rewarding, disappointing, happy and unhappy –and always interesting– sex life of the American people.

THE THORNY PATH

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A history of the underground pornography trade in Britain and its empire between 1900 and 1945.

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Between 1900 and 1945, Britain and its empire experienced significant technological and social changes that altered its media and entertainment landscape. One aspect of British culture that underwent these changes was pornography. While illegal and socially reviled, the pornography trade adapted and flourished during this period. In The Thorny Path Jamie Stoops situates changes within the pornography trade in the context of an increasingly transnational world. Those who traded in pornography circled the globe, journeying from Britain to its colonies, from colonial holdings to continental Europe, from Europe to North America. In the process, pornographers and their customers developed new vocabularies and norms with which to negotiate their trade. Based on extensive archival research, this book grounds questions of transnationalism and heteronormativity in the day-to-day lives of low-level pornographers and consumers. Stoops's focus on street-level interactions within the trade is balanced with an analysis of state policies, legal regulations, and debates about obscenity, illustrating the interplay between enforcers of mainstream moral standards and those who represented deviant sexual practices. Raising questions of queerness and sexual normativity, The Thorny Path links these issues to contemporary conversations about pornography, obscenity, and sexuality. It offers timely historical context for current and vibrant debates surrounding marginalized sexualities, gender roles, and pornography in a time of rapid technological and social change.

Jamie Stoops (2018). The Thorny Path: Pornography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. 3rd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Hardcover. 312 pp. 17 b&w photos. ISBN-13: 978-077354689

SWINGING AND RELATED SUBJECTS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (W)

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THE BIG BOOK OF FILTH

 

ISBN-13: 978-0-304-35350-7
Writer: Jonathon Green
Title: The Big Book of Filth
Subtitle: 6500 Sex Slang Words and Phrases
Introduction: Jonathon Green
Language: English
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: Cassell & Co.
Year of Publication: 2000
Format: 113x160mm
Pages: 288
Illustrations: 63 single colour cartoons by Kipper Williams
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket
Original Price: GBP 6.99
Weight: 294 gr.
Entry No.: 2012025
Entry Date: 4^th July 2012

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Immerse yourself in the lex of sex…

Visceral, raw and –above all- utterly  filthy, The Big Book of Filth is a guided tour of wordscapes teeming with genitalia and sex acts. Work your way through its thick forests of pubic hair, marvel at its salacious topography of rounded breasts, jutting buttocks and rock-hard penises, and enjoy the company of its sex-mad population of pimps, tarts, masturbators, fellators, cunnilinctors and rutting couples of all sexual persuasions.

The Big Book of Filth is the ideal companion for the lexically incorrect, and the perfect gift for those who worry that their vocabulary of sexual vulgarism is limited to such oft-used terns as cock, knob, tits and wanking. Here are hundreds of words and phrases you didn’t know, some you probably didn’t want to know –and words and phrases for sexual practices you had no idea even existed.

THE HITE REPORT

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was simple: she asked women, a lot of them, everything--and published the results.
One hundred thousand women, ages fourteen to seventy-eight, were asked what they do and don't like about sex; how orgasm really feels, with and without intercourse; how it feels not to have an orgasm during sex; the importance of clitoral stimulation and masturbation; and to name the greatest pleasures and frustrations of their sexual lives, among many other questions.
The Hite Report declares that orgasm is easy and strong for women, given the right stimulation; that most women have orgasm most easily during masturbation or clitoral stimulation by hand; that sex as we define it is a cultural institution, not a biological one; and that attitudes must change to include the stimulation women desire.

Shere Hite (1942-2020). The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2004. Softcover. 512 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-5832-561-2.

SEXUAL PRACTICES

 

ISBN-10: 0-85533-4371
Writer: Edgar Gregersen
Title: Sexual Practices
Subtitle: The Story of Human Sexuality
Language: English
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley International Limited
Year of Publication: 1984
Format: 180x262mm
Pages: 320; Bibliography, 308: Index, 313
Illustrations: 320 black and white pictures and sketches and 9 maps
Binding: Black boards in duotone dust jacket
Original Price: N/A
Weight: 943 gr.
Entry No.: 2012020
Entry Date: 23^rd May 2012

BOOK DESCRIPTION

In religion, morality, social customs and artistic themes, sex is and always has been an immensely powerful factor. In fact, sex pervades every culture in the world. Yet a detailed cross-cultural study of how different societies of human beings (including those of the West) act, think and behave sexually, has never yet been seriously attempted.

Sexual Practices is the first book to bring together, in a masterpiece of comparison and synthesis, the sexual themes and variations of hundreds of societies, including our own. It defines our knowledge of sexual practices, explains how we came to possess that knowledge. It reveals and challenges commonly held misconceptions, frequently based on the respected but subjective interpretations of western anthropologists.

Wittily and fluently written, it combines immense anthropological scholarship with challenging insights and speculations about a central human concern hedged around with fantasies, tabus, inhibitions – not least among Westerners with their Judaeo-Christian heritage of sexual repression. It covers a vast cross-cultural range of human sexual practices and customs, illustrated with images from all over the world, many rare and previously unpublished.

Divided into thematic and geographic sections, Sexual Practices is filled with the most extraordinary facts, from the indication of earliest man’s favoured sexual position (frontal – as deduced from a footprint nearly four million years old) to the bizarre kangaroo-penis envy of contemporary Australian societies. It traces the history of sex from its origins as a biological adaptation to the current sexual revolution and the emergence of the test-tube baby. It examines erotic and sexual art and architecture in high cultures, and folk beliefs and customs in primitive societies. Fully illustrated with more than 300 photographs, diagrams and maps, this is a book that enlarges our awareness of the human condition.

THE SOCIOLOGY OF SEX

 

ISBN-10: 0-390-43495-7
Editor: James M. Henslin
Title: Studies in the Sociology of Sex
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts Educational Division Meredith Corporation
Year of Publication: 1971
Format: 140x210mm
Pages: vi+410
Illustrations: 19 tables and figures
Binding: Brown boards without dust jacket
Original Price: N/A
Weight: 584 gr.
Entry No.: 2013003
Entry Date: 6^th February 2013
Discarded book of A.S. Women's Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225

CONTENTS

 

(01) James M. Henslin, The Sociological Point of View
CROSS-CULTURAL OVERVIEW OF PREMARITAL SEX
09) George W. Goethals, Factors Affecting Permissive and Nonpermissive Rules Regarding Premarital Sex
SEXUAL ORGASM
(29) David F. Shope, Sexual Responsiveness in Single Girls
(53) Michael Gordon, From an Unfortunate Necessity to a Cult of Mutual Orgasm: Sex in American Marital Education Literature, 1830-1940
SEX AMONG SWINGERS
(81) Carolyn Symonds, Sexual Mate-Swapping: Violation of Norms and Reconciliation of Guilt
ABORTION
(113) James M. Ηenslin, Criminal Abortion: Making the Decision and Neutralizing the Act
(137) Peter K. Manning, Fixing What You Feared: Notes on the Campus Abortion Search
SEX BY FORCE
(169) Duncan Chappell, Gilbert Geis, Stephen Schafer, Larry Siegel, Forcible Rape: A Comparative Study of Offenses Known to the Police in Boston and Los Angeles
OCCUPATIONS AND SEX: WHERE THE OCCUPATION INVOLVES SEX
(193) James M. Henslin, Sex and Cabbies
(225) Marvin Cummins, Police and Petting: Informal Enforcement of Sexual Standards
(243) James M. Henslin, Mae A. Biggs, Dramaturgical Desexualization: The Sociology of the Vaginal Examination
OCCUPATIONS AND SEX: WHERE THE OCCUPATION IS SEX
(275) James K. Skipper, Jr., Charles H.ΜcCaghy, Stripteasing: A Sex-Oriented Occupation
(297) Nanette J. Davis, The Prostitute: Developing a Deviant Identity
HOMOSEXUALITY
(325) George L. Kirkham, Homosexuality in Prison
(351) Laud Humphreys, Impersonal Sex and Perceived Satisfaction
AN OVERVIEW OF SEX RESEARCH
(377) Edward Sagarin, Sex Research and Sociology: Retrospective and Prospective
(409) Notes on Contributors

THE NEW OTHER WOMAN

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The author analyzes the reasons why a wide range of women become involved in long-term relationships with married men and assesses what this growing trend means for all women and for relationships in general.

Laurel Richardson (1985). The New Other Woman: Contemporary Single Woman in Affairs with Married Men. Free Press. Hardcover. 208 pp. ISBN-13: 978-029268902

CULTURES OF THE EROTIC IN SPAIN, 1898-1939

 

BOOK DESCRIPTION

To escape the heat of an August day in Madrid, Maite Zubiaurre ducked into an antique shop and there among world globes and old maps, she discovered a peculiar photo album. Tucked away among formal photos of King Alphonso XIII and Queen Isabel II was a whole collection of images of naked women and men. And, unlike the King, these women and men were not just posing. Rather they were engaged in a variety of "unnatural" sex acts, acts clearly at odds with the Spanish Catholic Church's doctrine that sex should serve for procreation alone: menages a trois, fellatio, cunnilingus, and zoophilia. But perhaps the most surprising images of the collection were a series of photos and sketches devoted to nuns and priests frolicking together on consecrated ground.

Zubiaurre realized she had discovered more than just a half-hidden collection of "naughty pictures," rather, she held in her hands a wealth of suppressed or forgotten materials that revealed a subversive countercurrent to the orthodoxies of Spain's male-dominated official high culture in the early 20th century. She set about to study these images and others like them as counter-text to traditional narratives of and about the time.

The result, Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939, is the first academic book to analyze the rich array of visual and textual representations of the erotic in Spanish popular culture during the first half of the twentieth century. It examines erotic magazines, illustrations, photographs, stereoscopic images, "French" postcards, and pornographic short films, as well as erotic novelettes, texts and images on naturism and nudism, writings on early sexology and psychoanalysis, moral-judicial treatises and philosophical essays on sexual love.

Cultures of the Erotic reveals a candid and irreverent Spain, which, before succumbing to the stifling circumstances of the post-Civil War Franco dictatorship, reveled in the undying impulses of the human libido.

Maite Zubiaurre.(2012). Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939. First Printing. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. Hardcover. 398 pp. 350 illus. ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-1696-1

MORE THAN TWO

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Now the new book More Than Two can help you find your own way. With completely new material and a fresh approach, Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert wrote More Than Two to expand on and update the themes and ideas in the wildly popular polyamory website morethantwo.com.

From Ancient Greece through the many dynasties of China to current practices of non-monogamy, people have openly engaged in multiple intimate relationships. Not until the late 20th century, however, was a word coined that encapsulated the practice, as well as its philosophies, edicts and ethics: polyamory (poly = many + amore = love).

For Franklin Veaux, who has been polyamorous for his entire adult life, the emerging framework and subsequent vocabulary for his lifestyle was a light in the dark. Candidly sharing his experiences and thoughts online catapulted his website morethantwo.com, among the first dedicated to the poly lifestyle, to one of the top-ranking on the subject.

In recent years, as more people have discovered polyamory as a legitimate and desirable option for how they conduct their relationships, Franklin and one of his partners, Eve Rickert, saw that there was a growing need for a comprehensive guide to the lifestyle. More Than Two is that guide.

This wide-ranging resource explores the often-complex world of living polyamorously: the nuances (no, this isn't swinging), the relationship options (do you suit a V, an N, an open network?), the myths (don't count on wild orgies and endless sex but don't rule them out either!) and the expectations (communication, transparency and trust are paramount). More Than Two is entirely without judgment and peppered with a good dose of humor. In it the authors share not only their hard-won philosophies about polyamory, but also their hurts and embarrassments. Living poly is not always an easy road, and they hope that by reading this book, you'll avoid some of the mistakes they've made along the way.

Challenging the notion of what society considers a healthy and successful relationship, they offer up personal stories from their own lives as well as of those in the wider poly world, emphasizing that this lifestyle choice isn't for the noncommittal. Polyamory is all about the relationships and the individuals participating. Charting a Relationship Bill of Rights, the authors underscore the importance of engaging in ethical polyamory and guide readers through the thorny issues of jealousy and insecurity with the aim of encouraging readers to work consistently and conscientiously on both their relationships and themselves.

And no, they're not trying to convert you: they know that polyamory isn't for everyone. Veaux and Rickert simply provide those who might be embarking on this lifestyle or those who have always known they are poly with a set of tools and many questions to help them make informed decisions and set them on a path to enjoying multiple happy, strong, enriching relationships.

More Than Two is the book the polyamory community has been waiting for. And who knows? It may just be the book you didn't even know you were waiting for.

Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert (2014). More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory. Thornapple Press. Softcover. 504 pp. Illus. ISBN-13: 978-0991399703

What Exactly is A Throuple?

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relationships/a27346835/what-is-a-throuple-relationship/

THE SEX ENCYCLOPEDIA

BOOK DESCRIPTION

From Simon & Schuster, Sex Encyclopedia : A to Z Guide to Latest Info on Sexual Health Safety & Technique is Stefan Bechtel's guide to all things sex.

The more than 120 entries in The Sex Encyclopedia, arranged in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, provide the most up-to-the-minute information on sexual health, safety, and technique from dozens of the nation's top doctors, clinicians, researchers, and sex therapists.

Stefan Bechtel (1993). The Sex Encyclopedia:An A-To-Z Guide to the Latest Information on Sexual Health, Safety, an Technique from the Nation's Top Sex Experts. New York, N.Y.: FIRESIDE, A registered trademark of Simon and Schuster, Inc. Softcover. xviii+384 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0671743246

STATE OF 'THE UNION'

BOOK DESCRIPTION

This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, how they articulated the platform, and contributed to its exposure by writing and publishing their ideas, arguments and concerns. While all Free Love participants claimed benefits and freedoms from the practice, this book is the first to compare the benefits and political agendas experienced by the male participants with those experienced by the females. The importance of this work lies in its potential to inform current political resistance against the inequality inherent in legislation that strives to restrict sexual freedom in the United States, and its potential to contribute to the overall well-being of women, men and the society they live in.

Sandra Ellen Schroer (2009). State of the 'Union': Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s. Routledge. Softcover. 136 pp. 5 B/W illus. ISBN-13: 978-0415805698